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I have a grouped UITableView with a few sections. The text in some of the cells can get quite long, I was wondering how I could make the text word-wrap?

Sheehan Alam
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eg

textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;

You can set this to a fixed number of lines if you prefer. It may be a good idea to set the lineBreakMode, and you will probably need to implement:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

using:

NSString sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:
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You'll have the specify the number of lines the text will use. Setting it to zero will wrap it automatically.

cell.textLabel.numberOfLines=0; // line wrap
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set numberOfLines > 1 on your label and set an appropriate lineBreakMode as well. You might need to modify the frame of the label to have enough space. You can do this in tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath: of your table view delegate.

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It looks like this question Custom Cell Height, right? I don't really get what word-wrap do, but I assume that you want to change the cell size according to the text length, is that right? So you can look at the above question and answer

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vodkhang
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  • Setting the cell height larger does not make the text fit. It still presents the "..." to the truncated text. – Sheehan Alam May 25 '10 at 16:03
  • "There is one label in the cell whose text is a NSString object and the length of string could be variable , due to this i cannot set a constant height to the cell in UITableViews : heightForCellAtIndex method. " (copied from the question), how about putting it into some UILabel and try again? – vodkhang May 25 '10 at 16:09
  • If I set the label property on the cell I can make it wordwrap. If the frame of the label exceeds the size of the cell, then I need to define a custom cell height. I guess both changes need to be made :) – Sheehan Alam May 25 '10 at 16:14