Figure Out Size of Uilabel Based on String in Swift

Figure out size of UILabel based on String in Swift

Use an extension on String

Swift 3

extension String {
    func height(withConstrainedWidth width: CGFloat, font: UIFont) -> CGFloat {
        let constraintRect = CGSize(width: width, height: .greatestFiniteMagnitude)
        let boundingBox = self.boundingRect(with: constraintRect, options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font], context: nil)
    
        return ceil(boundingBox.height)
    }

    func width(withConstrainedHeight height: CGFloat, font: UIFont) -> CGFloat {
        let constraintRect = CGSize(width: .greatestFiniteMagnitude, height: height)
        let boundingBox = self.boundingRect(with: constraintRect, options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font], context: nil)

        return ceil(boundingBox.width)
    }
}

and also on NSAttributedString (which is very useful at times)

extension NSAttributedString {
    func height(withConstrainedWidth width: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
        let constraintRect = CGSize(width: width, height: .greatestFiniteMagnitude)
        let boundingBox = boundingRect(with: constraintRect, options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, context: nil)
    
        return ceil(boundingBox.height)
    }

    func width(withConstrainedHeight height: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
        let constraintRect = CGSize(width: .greatestFiniteMagnitude, height: height)
        let boundingBox = boundingRect(with: constraintRect, options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, context: nil)
    
        return ceil(boundingBox.width)
    }
}

Swift 4 & 5

Just change the value for attributes in the extension String methods

from

[NSFontAttributeName: font]

to

[.font : font]

How to get the height of a UILabel in Swift?

it's simple, just call

label.bounds.size.height

Swift How to calculate one line text height from its font

UIFont has a property lineHeight:

    if let font = _textView.font {
        let height = font.lineHeight
    }

where font is your font

How to calculate UILabel height dynamically?

Try this

// UILabel *myLabel;

CGSize labelSize = [myLabel.text sizeWithFont:myLabel.font 
                            constrainedToSize:myLabel.frame.size 
                                lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];

CGFloat labelHeight = labelSize.height;


int lines = [myLabel.text sizeWithFont:myLabel.font 
                     constrainedToSize:myLabel.frame.size 
                         lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping].height/16; 
             // '16' is font size

or

int lines = labelHeight/16;

NSLog(@"lines count : %i \n\n",lines);  

or

int lines = [myLabel.text sizeWithFont:myLabel.font 
                     constrainedToSize:myLabel.frame.size 
                         lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap].height /myLabel.font.pointSize; //fetching font size from font

By Using Categories, Just Create the category class named as

UILabel+UILabelDynamicHeight.h

UILabel+UILabelDynamicHeight.m

No more tension about the height calculation. Please review the below implementation.

Updates for iOS7 & Above,iOS 7 below : Dynamically calculate the UILabel height

#define SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(v)                  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedSame)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(v)              ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedDescending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(v)                 ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)     ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedDescending)
#define iOS7_0 @"7.0"

UILabel+UILabelDynamicHeight.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface UILabel (UILabelDynamicHeight)

#pragma mark - Calculate the size the Multi line Label
/*====================================================================*/

    /* Calculate the size of the Multi line Label */

/*====================================================================*/
/**
 *  Returns the size of the Label
 *
 *  @param aLabel To be used to calculte the height
 *
 *  @return size of the Label
 */
 -(CGSize)sizeOfMultiLineLabel;

@end

UILabel+UILabelDynamicHeight.m

#import "UILabel+UILabelDynamicHeight.h"
@implementation UILabel (UILabelDynamicHeight)


#pragma mark - Calculate the size,bounds,frame of the Multi line Label
/*====================================================================*/

/* Calculate the size,bounds,frame of the Multi line Label */

/*====================================================================*/
/**
 *  Returns the size of the Label
 *
 *  @param aLabel To be used to calculte the height
 *
 *  @return size of the Label
 */
-(CGSize)sizeOfMultiLineLabel{

    //Label text
    NSString *aLabelTextString = [self text];

    //Label font
    UIFont *aLabelFont = [self font];

    //Width of the Label
    CGFloat aLabelSizeWidth = self.frame.size.width;


    if (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(iOS7_0)) {
        //version < 7.0

        return [aLabelTextString sizeWithFont:aLabelFont
                            constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(aLabelSizeWidth, MAXFLOAT)
                                lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
    }
    else if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(iOS7_0)) {
        //version >= 7.0

        //Return the calculated size of the Label
        return [aLabelTextString boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(aLabelSizeWidth, MAXFLOAT)
                                              options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                                           attributes:@{
                                                        NSFontAttributeName : aLabelFont
                                                        }
                                              context:nil].size;

    }

    return [self bounds].size;

}
@end

Getting UILabel Height by giving String, UIFont and Number of lines

In Swift 5:

Rob pointed me in the right direction and I saw that the number of lines can be achieved by using the UIFont.lineHeight.

Solution for getting the right height with a given text, width and max number of lines.

func height(width: CGFloat, font: UIFont, maxLines: CGFloat = 0) -> CGFloat {
    //Calculating height
    let constraintRect = CGSize(width: width, height: .greatestFiniteMagnitude)
    let boundingBox = self.boundingRect(with: constraintRect,
                                        options: [.usesLineFragmentOrigin, .usesFontLeading],
                                        attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: font], context: nil)

    let height = ceil(boundingBox.height)
    if maxLines > 0 {
        let lines = height / font.lineHeight

        if lines >= maxLines {
            return (boundingBox.height / lines) * maxLines
        }

    }

    return height
}

How to calculate size of UILabel according to the text in Swift

    let label:UILabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 30, y: 0, width: curWidth!, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude))
    label.numberOfLines = 0
    label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.byWordWrapping
    label.font = curFont!
    label.sizeToFit();

How to calculate UILabel width based on text length?

CGSize expectedLabelSize = [yourString sizeWithFont:yourLabel.font 
                        constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize 
                        lineBreakMode:yourLabel.lineBreakMode]; 

What is -[NSString sizeWithFont:forWidth:lineBreakMode:] good for?

this question might have your answer, it worked for me.

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For 2014, I edited in this new version, based on the ultra-handy comment by Norbert below! This does everything. Cheers

// yourLabel is your UILabel.

float widthIs = 
 [self.yourLabel.text
  boundingRectWithSize:self.yourLabel.frame.size                                           
  options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
  attributes:@{ NSFontAttributeName:self.yourLabel.font }
  context:nil]
   .size.width;

NSLog(@"the width of yourLabel is %f", widthIs);

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