Adding left margin to UITextView

Question

I\'m trying to add a left margin to a UITextView.

I\'ve tried setting the property contentInset, see below:

UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc] in         


        

Answer 1

The ONLY thing worked for me is by sub-classing the UITextView and overriding the following method:

    - (id)styleString
{
    return [[super styleString] stringByAppendingString:@"; line-height: 1.6em;margin-right: 30px; margin-left: 45px; margin-top: 20px;"];
}

Apparently; you can tweak the margin-left, margin-top & whatever you want ;)

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The suggestion about placing the UITextView in a larger UIView didn't work for me as I needed to scrollable lines in the background of UITextView, I used the following open-source project to do that: https://github.com/aahsanali/NoteView

Also, the following solution didn't help me at all:

[textView setContentInset:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 20, 0,-20)]

As it wasn't wrapping text correctly.

I hope this solution helps as I literally spent a week digging into this simple UI tweak!