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Asked: 2026-06-13T01:44:31+00:00

I’d like to add a bar button item to my navigation bar and give

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I’d like to add a bar button item to my navigation bar and give it some border images that look like vertical lines (circled in red in the image below)…

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The background of the barbutton item is going to clear, as I’m setting the background image of the entire navigation bar separately. The text is going to be dynamic, so I can’t bake either the text or the lines into a background image and then set that background image for the bar button item. I just need to add these vertical line images on either side of the bar button item.

Thanks so much in advance for your wisdom!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use a stretchable UIImage as a background for an UIButton and then init the bar button item with the UIButton as a custom view:

    UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
UIImage *bgImg = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"ButtonBorder.png"]
    resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 10)]; // or whatever size suits your needs
[btn setBackgroundImage:bgImg forState:UIControlStateNormal];

UIBarButtonItem *barButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:btn];

    etc.

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