Question

What do I need to do to get ellipsis if the textlabel text exceeds 2 lines? I have pointed out the issue in the screen shot below, followed by the code that sets the textLabel properties. Thanks for looking!

 - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
 {

      //...          

      cell.textLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:16];
      cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 2;
      cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
      cell.textLabel.text = [self.selectedSubject subject];
      cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"May 21st, 2012";

      return cell;
}

Answer 1

You want to use

cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeTailTruncation;

instead of

cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

UILineBreakModeWordWrap only works when numberOfLines is equal to 1