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Asked: 2026-05-18T21:58:47+00:00

I have an array of UILabels inside the contentView of a custom UITableViewCell. The

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I have an array of UILabels inside the contentView of a custom UITableViewCell. The font of each label is sized by ranking to form a tag cloud. In the method that sets up the cell (row), I iterate through the word objects that will fit on that line, setting up the frame for each UILabel as follows:

CGRect theFrame = CGRectMake(xPosAdjuster,
    theWordRow.rowHeight - thisWord.lblHeight,
    thisWord.lblWidth,
    thisWord.lblHeight);
UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:theFrame];

This gets the frames of the labels aligned (see image below), but, unfortunately, the labels have a padding that is a function of the font size.

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Is there any way to remove the padding (border) on a UILabel and/or calculate it exactly so I can adjust the y pos of the frames accordingly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You may want to take a look at this page. There is information on Apple’s Docs, however this was the first I found.

    So it looks like you’ll have to do some calculation based on the descender of the UIFont. You can easily get this value, it is defined as a property on UIFont.

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