NSTextAlignmentCenter still not working

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Through this question I've learned that in order to center align text in UILabel via NSTextAlignmentCenter I must disable "letter tighten spacing" and this guy agrees.

They mention disabling this option in interface builder, however, my uilabel isn't accessible in IB as far as I know. This is because I am trying to change the "textLabel" of a cell in a uitableview. I proceeded to attempt to try disabling things in code:

cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 1;
cell.textLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth      = NO;
cell.textLabel.adjustsLetterSpacingToFitWidth = NO;
cell.textLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
cell.textLabel.text = @"My Centered Text";

However, none of these seem to have any effect. The text is still left aligned.

cell.textLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter; should be all you need. The first 3 lines are all the default values, so no need to set them. — rdelmar, Aug 09 '13 at 01:58

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Found the problem! Had to change the cell style to UITableViewCellStyleDefault:

cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:simpleTableIdentifier];

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Aug 09 '13 at 01:58

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Duh ! I had the same issue, as I was doing the same thing ! Thanks for sharing. – Mike Gledhill Sep 20 '13 at 19:54

NSTextAlignmentCenter still not working

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