Question

I have text that I want to display centered (both vertically and horizontally) within bounds of a box. The text is dynamic so I can’t just set it in IB.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use the following method to get the expected size as

CGSize expectedLabelSize = [yourString sizeWithFont:yourLabel.font];

Using this set the frame of your label as

yourLabel.frame = CGRectMake( yourX, yourY, expectedLabelSize.width , expectedLabelSize.height;

The same could be done with UIButton and UItextArea. You can also you use UITextField but the height would not be adjustible.

Also you can set the textalignment property to Centre as yourLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter

Hope it works!!