Append UILabel in UITableViewCell

Question

I am developing iPhone app, in which i got stuck at one point,

what i want to do is, i have UITableView and in the UITableViewCell i want to display the text like this:

India in Country23
Australia in Country2
USA in Country22
AMERI in Country26
FRANCE in Country12
ITALY in Country20
WEST INDIES in Country42
KENYA
SOUTH AFRICA
NEW ZEALAND

The text before in is in one array and text after in (which is in BOLD) is in another array and also i want to change the text color of BOLD text which is after in

Note: Some of the cell contains bold text and some doesn't

How to display data like this in UITableVIew ?

please help and thanks in advance.

possible duplicate of [iPhone - UILabel containing text with multiple fonts at the same time](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1417346/iphone-uilabel-containing-text-with-multiple-fonts-at-the-same-time) — rishi, Jul 02 '14 at 07:35
Better option will be to take two `UILabel`. In that case it will be easy to play with them. — Dhrumil, Jul 02 '14 at 07:41
possible duplicate of [Any way to bold part of a NSString?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6013705/any-way-to-bold-part-of-a-nsstring) — Amar, Jul 02 '14 at 07:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '14 at 07:49

Here is a complete example

@implementation MyTableViewController
{
    NSArray *_countryNames;
    NSArray *_countryNumbers;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    _countryNames = @[@"India", @"Australia", @"USA"];
    _countryNumbers = @[@"Country23", @"Country2", @"Country22"];
}

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
    return 1;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return MIN(_countryNames.count, _countryNumbers.count);
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath
{
    static NSString *identifier = @"reuseIdentifier";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:identifier];
    if (!cell)
    {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier: identifier];
    }
    NSString *text1 = _countryNames[indexPath.row];
    NSString *text2 = _countryNumbers[indexPath.row];
    NSString *completeText = [[text1 stringByAppendingString:@" " ] stringByAppendingString:text2];

    const CGFloat fontSize = 13;
    UIFont *boldFont = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:fontSize];
    UIFont *regularFont = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:fontSize];

    NSDictionary *attrs = @{NSFontAttributeName : regularFont};

    NSDictionary *subAttrs = @{NSFontAttributeName : boldFont};
    NSRange range = NSMakeRange(text1.length + 1, text2.length);

    NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText =
    [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:completeText
                                           attributes:attrs];
    [attributedText setAttributes:subAttrs range:range];

    [cell.textLabel setAttributedText:attributedText];
    return cell;
}

@end

@Krunal `NSDictionary *subAttrs = @{NSFontAttributeName : boldFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor redColor]};` Just add another key to the sub-attributes dictionary. — michaelsnowden, Jul 02 '14 at 07:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 07:48

I think you need to use custom uilabel with NSAttributedString or an NSMutableAttributedString functionality like this example

NSString *boldFontName = [[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12] fontName];
    NSString *yourString = ...;
    NSRange boldedRange = NSMakeRange(22, 4);

    NSMutableAttributedString *attrString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:yourString];

    [attrString beginEditing];
    [attrString addAttribute:kCTFontAttributeName 
                       value:boldFontName
                       range:boldedRange];

    [attrString endEditing];

  [_label setAttributedText:attrString];

Append UILabel in UITableViewCell

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