how can I increase the size of cell in UITableViewController at run time when the text to be entered in the cell is large?

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I am loading data into a UITableviewcell from a server and the problem is that sometimes the text returned is large and sometimes less . Now the problem is when large text is returned , the tableview cell is not able to display the whole data , and when the text returned is small , then there is a blank space in the cell which does not look good.

Can someone help me in this matter please ?

Hey, check out - tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: of UITableViewDelegate and this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3429671/how-to-get-the-width-of-an-nsstring — Sascha Manuel Hameister, May 29 '15 at 20:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '15 at 19:44

If the text is being displayed in a UITextView, you can use the sizeThatFits() method or contentSize property to determine the size of the text. You can do this in the UITableViewDelegate method tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: to apply the size of the text to the UITableViewCell.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '15 at 19:49

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Use the property estimatedRowHeight for tableView in iOS 8.

    self.tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 100;

answered May 29 '15 at 19:49

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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Don't do your own height calculations. Let Auto Layout (and self-sizing cells) do the work.

Here's an excellent walkthrough covering what to do, from a similar question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered May 29 '15 at 20:15

how can I increase the size of cell in UITableViewController at run time when the text to be entered in the cell is large?

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