Resize font of label in custom tableViewCell

Asked Jan 15 '14 at 18:18

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So I have a custom table view cell and I want a label to be resized based on the text in it. I've already tried doing this in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method-

        cell.titleLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
        cell.titleLabel.numberOfLines = 1;
        [cell.titleLabel setMinimumScaleFactor:8.0/[UIFont labelFontSize]];

I also tried setting minimum scale factor and minimum font size in IB...but the label font doesn't resize.

The case I want to take care of is the case where the text in the label is larger than the phone width and so I want to resize when that happens.

What's going wrong/How do I achieve that?

edited Jan 15 '14 at 18:39

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If you had implement custom cell, also implement viewWillLayoutSubview method and change the size of label depending on the text there. – Adnan Aftab Jan 15 '14 at 18:34
so viewWillLayoutSubview is not called... – praks5432 Jan 15 '14 at 18:37
@C_X `viewWillLayoutSubviews` is a method of `UIViewController`, not `UIView` or `UITableViewCell`. Perhaps you mean `layoutSubviews`? – rmaddy Jan 15 '14 at 18:44
rmaddy - do you have any idea why the label is not resizing? – praks5432 Jan 15 '14 at 18:45
viewWillLayoutSubview method will call every time when a view will layout its subviews. You should add this method in customCell class. – Adnan Aftab Jan 15 '14 at 18:45
yes I added that - that's not a method of the UIView class – praks5432 Jan 15 '14 at 18:48
@rmaddy yes sorry equalnt method to views is layoutSubviews... you right... – Adnan Aftab Jan 15 '14 at 18:49
right, so I added the adjustFontSizeToFitWidth method to the layoutSubviews and it still didn't work – praks5432 Jan 15 '14 at 18:52
[cell.titleLabel sizeTofit]; It will make label fit to size... – Adnan Aftab Jan 15 '14 at 18:54
won't that expand the label? I don't want that...I want the label to be the same and the text font size to change – praks5432 Jan 15 '14 at 18:57
Possible duplicate: [link](http://stackoverflow.com/q/2844397/2298998) – iOS Dev Jan 15 '14 at 19:15

Resize font of label in custom tableViewCell

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