Text in table view cell not wrapping to second line

Question

I have a cell which may have to display a long text. In this case it should wrap to a second line.

I have Lines set to 2 and Line Break set to Word Wrap in the attributes Inspector. The Interface Builder preview confirm that and behaves as expected/desired.

When building and running however the text is limited to one line and truncuates at the tail:

Other changes in the attribute inspector seem to have no effect aswell (text alignment for example)!

In your UITableViewDelegate, what are you returning as heightForRow ? — mag_zbc, Jul 11 '17 at 10:32
In the class that powers the shown table view I have not functions mentioning _heightForRow_ — Marmelador, Jul 11 '17 at 10:34
Check this answer maybe https://stackoverflow.com/a/30300870/1422333 — Zell B., Jul 11 '17 at 10:34
set number of line to zero , and return `UITableViewAutomaticDimension` in height — Dhiru, Jul 11 '17 at 10:35
see this is answered here , add contraints and follow the steps here https://stackoverflow.com/a/43656451/4466607 — Dhiru, Jul 11 '17 at 10:38

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '18 at 08:54

8

If anyone is still having the problem.. Here's the solution for swift 4 Xcode 9 iOS 11

inside the cellForRowAt tableview function you just have to add a single line of code

cell?.textLabel?.numberOfLines = 0

answered May 29 '18 at 08:54

Shubhdeep Bhattacharya

81
1
3

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 11:40

6

For getting the lines without the dots, Do the following -

Take the UILabel inside the cell, go to the attribute inspector.
In the attribute inspector find lines and change it to 0.
Then, change the line break to WordWrap

I think this will work.

answered Jul 11 '17 at 11:40

Vishnu Prasannan

231
1
11

As described in my question, that is precisely what I already did. – Marmelador Jul 11 '17 at 14:01
In the question you described it as line is set to 2. – Vishnu Prasannan Jul 12 '17 at 04:04
This is the correct solution. I tried all the other suggestions to do it in code but this is what worked. – pretz Oct 13 '19 at 00:56

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 11 '17 at 10:36

5

Swift 3

Add Two Methods in tableview.

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
                return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
 }

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
                return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
 }

edited Jul 11 '17 at 10:36

Jaydeep Vora

6,085
1
22
40

answered Jul 11 '17 at 10:33

Jay

686
1
4
16

But why is it neccessary to change the heigth of the row, when I only want to change the line breaking. Also, other changes in the attribute Inspector to the cell don't seem to have any effect either. – Marmelador Jul 11 '17 at 10:55
You are use autolayout or size class? – Jay Jul 11 '17 at 11:00

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 10:37

0

You can implement automatic cell sizing depending on the label's text size

In your cell, add constraints for Top and Bottom of UILabel, but not for cell height or label height
In your table view set
tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension

This will make the cells resize according to label's contents

answered Jul 11 '17 at 10:37

mag_zbc

6,801
14
40
62

Where do you add this declaration? In a specific method? Thank you. – Moondra Aug 05 '18 at 23:38

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 11 '17 at 14:26

0

If you want to have multiple lines in label so in attributes inspector set lines to 0 and implement

tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension

edited Jul 11 '17 at 14:26

Cœur

37,241
25
195
267

answered Jul 11 '17 at 10:42

Develen

1
1

Where do you add this declaration? In a specific method? Thank you. – Moondra Aug 05 '18 at 23:38

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 28 '19 at 19:55

The constraints might not have set properly for the UILabel. So, the UILabel will keep on expanding as the text increases.

Set the UILabel constraints with autolayout constraints or give a static width (or left and right properties).
Now in label attributes inspector set lines to 0

Text in table view cell not wrapping to second line

6 Answers6