Clickable username and hashtag in UILabel (Not UIWebView!)

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The idea is for example there is a UILabel (like in Instagram) "User1 started following User2" I want that when we click either on chunk of text 'User1' or 'User2' it does some action(Not opening like usual link in UIWebView)

Tried TTTAttributedLabel , didn't find anything which will fit me exactly.

try [OHAttributedLabel](https://github.com/AliSoftware/OHAttributedLabel) — Huy Nghia, Mar 06 '15 at 00:00

schickling · Answer 1 · 2015-09-05T09:18:20.677

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in case you haven't found something yet, you could also try ActiveLabel.swift which is an UILabel drop-in replacement supporting Hashtags (#), Mentions (@) and URLs (http://) written in Swift.

Here is a simple example:

import ActiveLabel

let label = ActiveLabel()

label.text = "This is a post with #hashtags and a @userhandle."
label.hashtagColor = .blueColor()
label.handleHashtagTap { print("Success. You just tapped the \($0) hashtag") }

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the library.

edited Sep 05 '15 at 09:18

answered Sep 04 '15 at 17:35

schickling

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Thanks schickling for share. Works for swift 1.2? – Darío Gutiérrez Sep 24 '15 at 04:24
No, unfortunately Swift 2 only at the moment. – schickling Sep 24 '15 at 08:18
Hello @schickling , AvtiveLabel does not support image content of NSTextAttachment – Meilbn Dec 08 '22 at 08:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '15 at 00:27

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Just make a new button. It can do everything a label can do, and also have actions. You can easily update the text of a button by using:

exampleButton.setTitle("example", forState: .Normal)

And you can add an action like this:

    @IBAction func myExample(sender: UIButton) {

    //do action

    }

Hope this helped.

answered Mar 06 '15 at 00:27

brimstone

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thank you , but it's not what i wanted ,button will not align like a part of a text. – Grisha Gevorkyan Mar 06 '15 at 12:28
What do you mean? A button has every capability that a label has. – brimstone Mar 06 '15 at 17:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '15 at 07:26

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Using a method will force you to make two of them (User 1 and User 2) and align it every time you draw it. I think it's better to make a category ( or Swift extension) of UILabel that gets it's frame and add a gesture recognizer with that frame bounds

answered Mar 06 '15 at 07:26

Christian

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I thought of that :) But seems like I finally managed to find a proper solution using TTTAttributedLabel here http://stackoverflow.com/a/8926077/4229173 . The idea is to attach a fake hyperlink to to button ,but when link is clicked it will do some action instead of opening UIWebView. – Grisha Gevorkyan Mar 06 '15 at 12:31

Clickable username and hashtag in UILabel (Not UIWebView!)

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