How to achieve UIButton / UILabel 'padding' in iPhone app

Question

I\'ve got various views in my iPhone application that require padding e.g a custom UIButton with text aligned left, and a UILabel with a background color.

This may be a

Answer 1

CGRectInset is your friend. You can set negative 'insets' to create padding:

[self sizeToFit];
CGRect rect = self.frame;
rect = CGRectInset( rect, -6.f, -5.f); // h inset, v inset
self.frame = rect;