How can I accurately detect if a link is clicked inside UILabels in Swift 4?

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Edit

See my answer for a full working solution:

I managed to solve this myself by using a UITextView instead of a UILabel

Answer 1

You can use MLLabel library. MLLabel is a subclass of UIlabel. The library has a class MLLinkLabel that is subclass of MLLabel. That means you can use it in place of UIlabel (even in interface builder just drag a UILabel and change it's class to MLLinkLabel)

MLLinkLabel can do the trick for you and it is very easy. Here is an example:

    label.didClickLinkBlock = {(link, linkText, label) -> Void in

        //Here you can check the type of the link and do whatever you want.
        switch link!.linkType {
        case .email:
            break
        case .none:
             break
        case .URL:
             break
        case .phoneNumber:
             break
        case .userHandle:
             break
        case .hashtag:
             break
        case .other:
             break
        }

    }

you can check the library in GitHub https://github.com/molon/MLLabel

Here is a screenshot from one of my apps that I used MLLabel in it.