How to format some text as bold within a UILabel?

Question

I have an iOS UILabel that needs some of the text to be normal and some of the text to be bold. The bold text is actually supposed to be a link to another part of the app, but for now, I'm just reacting to tapping on the entire label. How can I format some of the text to be bold?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '15 at 20:20

Use the attributedText property:

NSMutableAttributedString *text = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"This is a test."];
[text addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName
          value:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12]
          range:NSMakeRange(0, 4)];
label.attributedText = text;

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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You need to use NSAttributedString. Please look at this answer to see an example: Any way to bold part of a NSString?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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