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I have a bunch of UILabels that I add through code and I want to perform a specific action for each if the user's finger touches up inside (much like UIButton's touchUpInside in IB). What is the best way of doing this?

willcodejavaforfood
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The easiest way is probably to use UIButton instead of UILabel. A custom UIButton has no border and can look like a plain label, but handles the event tracking for you.

Otherwise, you must derive from UILabel and implement the UIResponder calls for touch handling.

drawnonward
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    To make a button behave more like a lable, you may need multi-line text with wrapping in a button. See this answer for that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/604632/how-do-you-add-multi-line-text-to-a-uibutton – RajV Sep 19 '13 at 14:44
  • Note that UIButton doesn't work well with text wrapping and sometimes a UILabel is necessary. – David Rector Feb 15 '19 at 03:51
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You can use UITapGestureRecognizer to perform action over the label Fields.

Set the number of taps and touches on the UITapGestureRecognizer object.

[oneFingerTwoTaps setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];
[oneFingerTwoTaps setNumberOfTouchesRequired:1];

set user interaction of label field like

labelField.userInteractionEnabled = YES;

then add target method over the

UITapGestureRecognizer object.
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