Uitextview Starts at Bottom or Middle of the Text

UITextView starts at Bottom or Middle of the text

That did the trick for me!

Objective C:

[self.textView scrollRangeToVisible:NSMakeRange(0, 0)];

Swift:

self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))

Swift 2 (Alternate Solution)

Add this override method to your ViewController

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    textView.setContentOffset(CGPointZero, animated: false)
}

Swift 3 & 4 (syntax edit)

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
  super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()

  textView.contentOffset = .zero
}

UITextView text starts from the middle and not the top

In the ViewController containing the UITextField, add this:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    textView.setContentOffset(CGPoint.zero, animated: false)
}

UITextView always appears scrolled to bottom of content?

Try following, may it help:

[yourTextView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0,0,1,1) animated:YES];

OR

set the content offset in viewDidLayoutSubviews for it to take effect.

- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
[yourTextView setContentOffset:CGPointZero animated:NO];
}

OR

in viewDidLoad

[yourTextView scrollRangeToVisible:NSMakeRange(0, 1)];

UITextView alignment to bottom

I don't believe there is a built-in way to vertically align the text in a UITextView, but you should be able to use the contentOffset property of the UITextView class to accomplish this. See this blog post for more details:

http://imagineric.ericd.net/2011/03/10/ios-vertical-aligning-text-in-a-uitextview/

Update: since the above link appears to be dead, I used the Wayback Machine to retrieve an archived copy and have pasted the text of the article below.

The default and expected behavior of a UITextView (multi-line text) out of the box in iOS is to align the text top left in it’s container. That works well most of the time. However I recently had need to either center the text vertically within the control or have all the text align to the bottom of the control.

You can add an observer to the control and when it’s content size changes (text is set), fire a method. The method can then handle how the text is actually positioned in the control. If it doesn’t make sense to do the alignment, it will default to the normal behavior of the control (top vertical alignment).

Here we go:

- (void) viewDidLoad {
   [textField addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:(NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL];
   [super viewDidLoad];
}

-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
   UITextView *tv = object;
   //Center vertical alignment
   //CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height * [tv zoomScale])/2.0;
   //topCorrect = ( topCorrect < 0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect );
   //tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};

   //Bottom vertical alignment
   CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height);
    topCorrect = (topCorrect <0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect);
    tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};
}

You can decide which you’d like to use, or flush the method out to take an argument for which type of vertical alignment you’d like to use. This works quite well and it would have been nice if the properties were built into the control to begin with.

If you can use it, enjoy.

Text line in UITextView is cut the middle

Well, I ended up deleting the VC and creating it all over again. I also used the same VC class. Now it seems to be working.

Text in Textfield starts in Middle of TextField IOS

What you want to do is both a horizontal and vertical alignment like this:

textField.textAlignment = .left
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = .top

Result:

UITextView text not starting from top

Set the Content Inset like this in your UITextView

youtextView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-7.0,0.0,0,0.0);

Adjust the Top value the way you want. this shoud fix your problem.

EDIT:

If you're having issues with iOS7 or above, try using...

[yourTextView setContentOffset: CGPointMake(x,y) animated:BOOL];

My UITextView text jumps to right after editing (swift)

You need to use Text Alignment. From the documentation:

var textAlignment: NSTextAlignment

You may have to hard-set the UITextView typing attributes.
Then again, if your problem is not that it stops being text-aligned to the left but rather that the whole thing becomes slightly indented, your issue may be with Text Container Inset. You can read more about the inset here.

textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 8, left: 8, bottom: 8, right: 8);

How to lose margin/padding in UITextView

Up-to-date for 2021

It is one of the silliest bugs in iOS.

The class given here, UITextViewFixed , is used widely, and is usually the most reasonable solution overall.

Here is the class:

@IBDesignable class UITextViewFixed: UITextView {
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        setup()
    }
    func setup() {
        textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets.zero
        textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0
    }
}

Don't forget to turn off scrollEnabled in the Inspector!

1. The solution works properly in storyboard

2. The solution works properly at runtime

That's it, you're done.

In general, that should be all you need in most cases.

Even if you are changing the height of the text view on the fly, UITextViewFixed usually does all you need.

(A common example of changing the height on the fly, is changing it as the user types.)

Here is the broken UITextView from Apple...

Here is UITextViewFixed:

Note that of course you must...

...turn off scrollEnabled in the Inspector!

(Turning on scrollEnabled means "make this view expand as much as possible vertically by expanding the bottom margin as much as possible.")

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Some further issues

(1) In some very unusual cases dynamically changing heights, Apple does a bizarre thing: they add extra space at the bottom.

No, really! This would have to be one of the most infuriating things in iOS.

If you encounter the problem, here is a "quick fix" which usually helps:

...
        textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets.zero
        textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0

        // this is not ideal, but sometimes this "quick fix"
        // will solve the "extra space at the bottom" insanity:
        var b = bounds
        let h = sizeThatFits(CGSize(
           width: bounds.size.width,
           height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude)
       ).height
       b.size.height = h
       bounds = b
 ...

(2) In rare cases, to fix yet another subtle mess-up by Apple, you have to add:

override func setContentOffset(_ contentOffset: CGPoint, animated: Bool) {
    super.setContentOffset(contentOffset, animated: false) // sic
}

(3) Arguably, we should be adding:

contentInset = UIEdgeInsets.zero

just after .lineFragmentPadding = 0 in UITextViewFixed.

However ... believe or not ... that just doesn't work in current iOS! (Checked 2021.) It may be necessary to add that line in the future.

The fact that UITextView is broken in iOS is one of the weirdest things in all of mobile computing. Ten year anniversary of this question and it's still not fixed!

Finally, here's a somewhat similar tip for TextField: Set the maximum character length of a UITextField in Swift

Completely random tip: how to add the "..." on the end

Often you are using a UITextView "like a UILabel". So you want it to truncate text using an ellipsis, "..."

If so, add:

 textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

Handy tip if you want zero height, when, there's no text at all

Often you use a text view to only display text. So, you use lines "0" to mean the text view will automatically change height depending on how many lines of text.

That's great. But if there is no text at all, then unfortunately you get the same height as if there is one line of text!!!! The text view never "goes away".

If you want it to "go away", just add this

override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize {
    var i = super.intrinsicContentSize
    print("for \(text) size will be \(i)")
    if text == "" { i.height = 1.0 }
    print("   but we changed it to \(i)")
    return i
}

(I made it '1' height, so it's clear what's going on in that demo, '0' is fine.)

What about UILabel?

When just displaying text, UILabel has many advantages over UITextView. UILabel does not suffer from the problems described on this Q&A page.

Indeed the reason we all usually "give up" and just use UITextView is that UILabel is difficult to work with. In particular it is ridiculously difficult to just add padding, correctly, to UILabel.

In fact here is a full discussion on how to "finally" correctly add padding to UILabel: Adding space/padding to a UILabel. In some cases if you are doing a difficult layout with dynamic height cells, it is sometimes better to do it the hard way with UILabel.

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