Create UILabel with differently styled text in iOS 5.1, without using storyboards

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I would like to create a one lined UILabel with a simple formatting that would look like this: enter image description here

Never mind the underlining - it's the Photoshop thing.

I basically have 2 parts of the text, the left one with one font family, size and color, and another one with another. Adding 2 labels one after another would make things extremely problematic and complicated. Any ideas how would you combine the thing into one simple UILabel? thanks in advance!

EDIT: I don't use Storyboards or XIB's and I'm building for iOS 5.1 and up

@AnoopVaidya can you explain why is it a duplicate? I'm looking for a pre iOS6 solution and I would like to find new ways of solving this problem, the question you a referring me to doesn't have an answer for me. — Sergey Grischyov, Mar 04 '13 at 17:08
@AnoopVaidya the one that would work **before** iOS6, which is, _obviously_, pre iOS6. — Sergey Grischyov, Mar 04 '13 at 17:14

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 17:19

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If you want to run iOS 5.0 and up, you can use the wonderful TTTAttributedLabel by mattt.

answered Mar 04 '13 at 17:19

Anupdas

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '13 at 17:16

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I've used both of the following in apps that run in iOS 5+.

answered Mar 04 '13 at 17:16

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 16:49

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You can use two UILabels aligned with one another using autolayout, or you can use the attributedText property available in iOS6

answered Mar 04 '13 at 16:49

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I agree. Attributed Text seems to be what you are looking for. You can even style it in Interface Builder, simply set the Text property from Plain to Attributed. – Marcus Adams Mar 04 '13 at 16:54
Apparently it's not possible since I don't use Stroyboards or IB. I can't use iOS 6 as well – Sergey Grischyov Mar 04 '13 at 16:58
Why is setting `attributedText` in code since you don't use storyboard or IB? – Dan F Mar 04 '13 at 16:59
@DanF maybe because it's not available in iOS 5, huh? – Sergey Grischyov Mar 04 '13 at 17:00
Then your only option is to either use HTML formatted text in a `UIWebView` or two `UILabels` – Dan F Mar 04 '13 at 17:01
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3586871/bold-non-bold-text-in-a-single-uilabel – Nick Mar 04 '13 at 17:13
Thanks, @Nick, it's really what I wanted! – Sergey Grischyov Mar 04 '13 at 17:17

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 17:29

You can use attributedText property to handle this.

NSMutableAttributedString* string = [NSMutableAttributedString attributedStringWithString:@"OneThing (AnotherThing)"];

//this sets the font for the whole string

[string setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetice-Neue"]}];

//write another font here for "OneThing"

[string setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetice-Neue"]} range:NSMakeRange(0, 7)];

myLabel.attributedText = string;

Create UILabel with differently styled text in iOS 5.1, without using storyboards

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