Uitextview Content Size Different in iOS7

UITextView content size different in iOS7

The content size property no longer works as it did on iOS 6. Using sizeToFit as others suggest may or may not work depending on a number of factors.

It didn't work for me, so I use this instead:

- (CGFloat)measureHeightOfUITextView:(UITextView *)textView
{
    if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1)
    {
        // This is the code for iOS 7. contentSize no longer returns the correct value, so
        // we have to calculate it.
        //
        // This is partly borrowed from HPGrowingTextView, but I've replaced the
        // magic fudge factors with the calculated values (having worked out where
        // they came from)

        CGRect frame = textView.bounds;

        // Take account of the padding added around the text.

        UIEdgeInsets textContainerInsets = textView.textContainerInset;
        UIEdgeInsets contentInsets = textView.contentInset;

        CGFloat leftRightPadding = textContainerInsets.left + textContainerInsets.right + textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding * 2 + contentInsets.left + contentInsets.right;
        CGFloat topBottomPadding = textContainerInsets.top + textContainerInsets.bottom + contentInsets.top + contentInsets.bottom;

        frame.size.width -= leftRightPadding;
        frame.size.height -= topBottomPadding;

        NSString *textToMeasure = textView.text;
        if ([textToMeasure hasSuffix:@"\n"])
        {
            textToMeasure = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@-", textView.text];
        }

        // NSString class method: boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:context is
        // available only on ios7.0 sdk.

        NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];
        [paragraphStyle setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];

        NSDictionary *attributes = @{ NSFontAttributeName: textView.font, NSParagraphStyleAttributeName : paragraphStyle };

        CGRect size = [textToMeasure boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(CGRectGetWidth(frame), MAXFLOAT)
                                                  options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                                               attributes:attributes
                                                  context:nil];

        CGFloat measuredHeight = ceilf(CGRectGetHeight(size) + topBottomPadding);
        return measuredHeight;
    }
    else
    {
        return textView.contentSize.height;
    }
}

How do I size a UITextView to its content on iOS 7?

I favor this minimal code change: Just add these two lines after addSubview and before grabbing the height of the frame

...
[scrollView1 addSubview: myTextView];

    [myTextView sizeToFit]; //added
    [myTextView layoutIfNeeded]; //added

CGRect frame = myTextView.frame;
...

This is tested backwards compatible with iOS 6. NOTE that it shrink-wraps the width. If you're just interested in the height and have a fixed width, just grab the new height but set the original width, and it works just as before on both iOS 6 and 7.

(Speculation: it does size to fit on iOS 7 as well, but the layout is updated later or in a separate thread, and that this forces the layout immediately so that its frame is updated in time for using its height value a few lines later in the same thread.)

NOTES:

1) You might or might not have implemented the outer container resize this way. It does seem to be a common snippet, though, and I've used it in my projects.

2) Since sizeToFit seems to work as expected on iOS 7, you likely don't need the premature addSubView. Whether it will still work on iOS 6 then is untested by me.

3) Speculation: The extra layoutIfNeeded mid-thread might be costly. The alternative as I see it is to resize the outer container on the layout callback (fired or not depending on if the OS decides whether layout is needed or not) where the outer container resize will cause another layout update. Both updates might be combined with other layout updates to be more efficient. If you do have such a solution and you can show that it is more efficient, add it as answer and I'll be sure to mention it here.

iOS7 UITextView contentsize.height alternative

With this following code, you can change the height of your UITextView depending of a fixed width (it's working on iOS 7 and previous version) :

- (CGFloat)textViewHeightForAttributedText:(NSAttributedString *)text andWidth:(CGFloat)width
{
    UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
    [textView setAttributedText:text];
    CGSize size = [textView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(width, FLT_MAX)];
    return size.height;
}

With this function, you will take a NSAttributedString and a fixed width to return the height needed.

If you want to calculate the frame from a text with a specific font you, need to use the following code :

- (CGSize)text:(NSString *)text sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font constrainedToSize:(CGSize)size
{
    if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(@"7.0"))
    {
        CGRect frame = [text boundingRectWithSize:size
                                          options:(NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading)
                                       attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:font}
                                          context:nil];
        return frame.size;
    }
    else
    {
        return [text sizeWithFont:font constrainedToSize:size];
    }
}

You can add that SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO on your prefix.pch file in your project as:

#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)

You can also replace the previous test SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v) by :

if ([text respondsToSelector:@selector(boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:context:)])‌

How do I size a UITextView to its content?

This works for both iOS 6.1 and iOS 7:

- (void)textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView
{
    CGFloat fixedWidth = textView.frame.size.width;
    CGSize newSize = [textView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(fixedWidth, MAXFLOAT)];
    CGRect newFrame = textView.frame;
    newFrame.size = CGSizeMake(fmaxf(newSize.width, fixedWidth), newSize.height);
    textView.frame = newFrame;
}

Or in Swift (Works with Swift 4.1 in iOS 11)

let fixedWidth = textView.frame.size.width
let newSize = textView.sizeThatFits(CGSize(width: fixedWidth, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude))
textView.frame.size = CGSize(width: max(newSize.width, fixedWidth), height: newSize.height)

If you want support for iOS 6.1 then you should also:

textview.scrollEnabled = NO;

IOS7 get UITextView contentSize before viewDidAppear method is called?

You can call [self.textView layoutIfNeeded] after creating it with the appropriate frame (so it can figure out its max width) then contentSize should be representing the content.

Also: If textView is defined as weak, the text view will be gone on the next line (as ARC adds a release and the optimizer moves it up). They announced this optimization change for Debug (-O0) builds during WWDC.

iOS 7 - UITextView size font to fit all text into view (no scroll)

Solution 1

Your problem can be solved by simply replacing sizeWithFont: constrainedToSize: with :

boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(newView.frame.size.width, FLT_MAX)
                options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
             attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Interstate" size:fontSize]}
                context:nil];

Solution 2

The sizeThatFits method can be used to address this problem like this:

while (fontSize > minSize &&  [newView sizeThatFits:(CGSizeMake(newView.frame.size.width, FLT_MAX))].height >= newView.frame.size.height ) {
    fontSize -= 1.0;
    newView.font = [tv.font fontWithSize:fontSize];
}

I hope one of these solutions solve your problem. Cheers!

Resize UItextview according to it's content in iOS7

It seems UITextView's contentSize property is not correctly set in iOS 7 till viewDidAppear:. This is probably because NSLayoutManager lays out the text lazily and the entire text must be laid out for contentSize to be correct. The ensureLayoutForTextContainer: method forces layout of the provided text container after which usedRectForTextContainer: can be used for getting the bounds. In order to get total width and height correctly, textContainerInset property must be taken into account. The following method worked for me.

 - (CGRect)contentSizeRectForTextView:(UITextView *)textView
    {
        [textView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:textView.textContainer];
        CGRect textBounds = [textView.layoutManager usedRectForTextContainer:textView.textContainer];
        CGFloat width =  (CGFloat)ceil(textBounds.size.width + textView.textContainerInset.left + textView.textContainerInset.right);
        CGFloat height = (CGFloat)ceil(textBounds.size.height + textView.textContainerInset.top + textView.textContainerInset.bottom);
        return CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height);
    }

Additionally, it seems UITextView's setContentSize: method is called from layoutSubviews. So, calling layoutIfNeeded on a textView (which itself calls layoutSubviews) after calling ensureLayoutForTextContainer: on its layoutManager, should make the textView's contentSize correct.

[someTextView.layoutManager ensureLayoutForTextContainer:someTextView.textContainer];
[someTextView layoutIfNeeded]; 
// someTextView.contentSize should now have correct value

UITextView contentSize changes and NSLayoutManager in iOS7

Looks like the problem is in default layoutManager of UITextView. I've decided to subclass it and see, where and why re-layout being initiated. But simple creation of NSLayoutManager with default settings solved the problem.

Here is code (not perfect) from my demo project (see in question). The _textView there was an outlet, so I remove it from superview. This code is placed in - viewDidLoad:

NSTextStorage* textStorage = [[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithString:_textView.text];
NSLayoutManager* layoutManager = [NSLayoutManager new];
[textStorage addLayoutManager:layoutManager];
_textContainer = [[NSTextContainer alloc] initWithSize:self.view.bounds.size];
[layoutManager addTextContainer:_textContainer];
[_textView removeFromSuperview];    // remove original textView
_textView = [[MyTextView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds 
                                textContainer:_textContainer];
[self.view addSubview:_textView];

MyTextView here is a subclass of UITextView, see question for details.

For more info see:

• About Text Handling in iOS
• Using Text Kit to Draw and Manage Text
• NSLayoutManager Class Reference for iOS

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