Add hyperlinks to NSString iOS

Question

I have a simple NSString, for example :

NSString *text = @"Stackoverflow is amazing!"

and I'd like to turn the word Stackoverflow into a hyperlink pointing to https://stackoverflow.com/ and still be able to output the string as a variable. Is this possible?

Refer here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21629784/make-a-clickable-link-in-an-nsattributedstring-for-a-uitextfield-or-uilabel and here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8839464/uilabel-string-as-text-and-links — Sushil Sharma, Oct 14 '15 at 09:18

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '15 at 09:20

A string only contains letters - no formatting what so ever.

To make a part into a link, you have to Attributed Text and assign the first word a NSLink attribute with the url:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.de"];

NSAttributedString *my = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithString:@"my"
                                                             attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor blackColor], NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontWithSize:16]}];
NSAttributedString *link = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithString:@"Link"
                                                               attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor blue], NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontWithSize:16], NSLinkAttributeName:url}];
NSMutableAttributedString *attr = [my mutableCopy];
[attr appendAttributedString:link];

show it in a textview, a UILabel doesn't support clicking AFAIK

Add hyperlinks to NSString iOS

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