set label border in iphone

Question

How can I set label's border which is dynamically generated (Not from Interface Builder)?

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2311591/how-to-draw-border-around-a-uilabel — Vladimir, Mar 31 '10 at 10:12
Possible duplicate of [How to draw border around a UILabel?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2311591/how-to-draw-border-around-a-uilabel) — Suragch, Jun 10 '17 at 00:14

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited May 10 '11 at 11:49

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you can do it by

Label.layer.borderColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
Label.layer.borderWidth = 4.0;

before this you need to import a framework QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h

edited May 10 '11 at 11:49

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answered Mar 31 '10 at 10:35

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '15 at 12:45

Swift version

Set label border

label.layer.borderWidth = 2.0

Set border color

label.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blueColor().CGColor

Use rounded corners

label.layer.cornerRadius = 8

Make background color stay within rounded corners

label.layer.masksToBounds = true

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 31 '10 at 14:48

You can also try to subclass your label and override the drawRect: method to draw or a border or whatever you like:

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    [super drawRect:rect];
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    [[UIColor blackColor] setStroke];
    CGContextStrokeRect(context, self.bounds);
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 03 '16 at 11:30

I'm not sure you can by default with UILabel. You might want to consider using a read-only (field.editing = NO) UITextField and setting it's borderStyle (which can be done programmatically using a UITextBorderStyle). That may be a little 'heavy' though. Another option may be to sub-class UILabel to draw your border.

Alternatively, and depending on your needs this may be better, use the backing CALayer and draw a border using it's borderColor and borderWidth properties.

set label border in iphone

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