Question

When I dynamically change the text of a UILabel I would prefer to get an ellipsis (dot, dot, dot) rather then have the text be automatically resized. How does one do this?

In other words, if I have UILabel with the word Cat with size font 14 and then I change the word to Hippopotamus the font shrinks to fit all the word. I would rather the word be automatically truncated followed by an ellipsis.

I assume there is a parameter that can be changed within my UILabel object. I’d rather not do this programmatically.

Answer 1

Set the following properties:

Objective C

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;

Swift

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = false
label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

You can also set these properties in interface builder.