Center text in a UILabel

Question

How do you center the text inside a UILabel?

score 202 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

202

The Code is

[yourLabel setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];

or (of course) the Obj-C 2.0 Dot-Syntax

yourLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;

For iOS 6 (and higher) you should use NSTextAlignmentCenter instead of UITextAlignmentCenter:

yourLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

Source

And if you want backward compatibiliy to iOS 5 also you can do this,

#ifdef __IPHONE_6_0
# define ALIGN_CENTER NSTextAlignmentCenter
#else
# define ALIGN_CENTER UITextAlignmentCenter
#endif

Swift 3

yourLabel.textAlignment = .center

edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

Community

1
1

answered Sep 18 '10 at 23:17

Henrik P. Hessel

35,879
17
79
99

2

Or with a little less bracket soup: yourLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter; – Peter DeWeese Jun 15 '11 at 19:58
12

UITextAlignmentCenter is deprecated after iOS 6.0. Now use NSTextAlignmentCenter. – Dev2rights Mar 01 '13 at 15:12
3

Also note that if you call [yourLabel sizeToFit] after setting the textAlignment, it will end up left-justified and ignore the textAlignment property. – DiscDev May 07 '13 at 15:35

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '13 at 21:26

26

This is depreciated now in iOS6.

You should use:

yourLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

answered Jan 02 '13 at 21:26

R2D2

2,580
4
23
43

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '10 at 23:22

6

Besides using code, as Henrik suggested, you can also set the appropriate property in Interface Builder.

answered Sep 18 '10 at 23:22

Pablo Santa Cruz

170,119
31
233
283

How? Content Mode doesn't work. Niether does Alignment. So what in Interface Builder does it? – John Pitts Aug 19 '21 at 16:57

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 02 '16 at 09:58

If you have a multiline UILabel you should use a NSMutableParagraphStyle

   label.numberOfLines = 0
   let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
   paragraphStyle.alignment = .Center

   let attributes : [String : AnyObject] = [NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue", size: 15)!, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName: paragraphStyle]

   let attributedText = NSAttributedString.init(string: subTitleText, attributes: attributes)
   label.attributedText = attributedText

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 08:01

0

UITextAlignmentCenter is deprecated since NSTextAlignmentCenter since iOS 6.0. You should use NSTextAlignmentCenter instead:

[label setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];

answered Oct 04 '13 at 08:01

Luciano Rodríguez

2,221
3
18
32

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 14 '19 at 14:04

0

As of Xcode 10.2.1 use:

UIlabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center

answered May 14 '19 at 14:04

M Waz

675
1
5
18

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Oct 16 '12 at 08:53

0

Try this code:

labelName.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter

edited Oct 16 '12 at 08:53

Aitul

2,994
2
23
51

answered Jul 20 '11 at 11:00

Ayush Goel

1,093
1
7
7

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 19 '21 at 17:05

0

Using UIBUILDER (Swift 4) (EZ!)

Center UILabel text most easily using the "Alignment" property inside the label's Attributes Inspector. (fig. 1)

answered Aug 19 '21 at 17:05

John Pitts

490
3
15

score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Jul 10 '14 at 14:01

0

Try out the following code:

lblObject.textAlignment=UITextAlignmentCenter;

Hope this helps you.

edited Jul 10 '14 at 14:01

kender

82,935
24
100
144

answered Mar 02 '12 at 19:47

Ankit Gupta

958
6
19

Center text in a UILabel

9 Answers9

Linked