How to set the title of UIButton as left alignment?

Question

I need to display the email address from left side of a UIButton, but it is being positioned in the centre.

Is there any way to set the alignment to the

Answer 1

In Swift 3+:

button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left

Answer 2

in xcode 8.2.1 in the interface builder it moves to:

Answer 3

In Swift 5.0 and Xcode 10.2

You have two ways to approaches

1) Direct approach

btn.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left

2) SharedClass example (write once and use every ware)

This is your shared class(like this you access all components properties)

import UIKit

class SharedClass: NSObject {

    static let sharedInstance = SharedClass()

    private override init() {

    }
}

//UIButton extension
extension UIButton {
    func btnProperties() {
        contentHorizontalAlignment = .left
    }
}

In your ViewController call like this

button.btnProperties()//This is your button

Answer 4

Try

button.semanticContentAttribute = UISemanticContentAttributeForceRightToLeft;

Answer 5

Here is explained how to do it and why it works so: http://cocoathings.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-make-uibutton-text-left-or-right.html

Answer 6

UIButton *btn;
btn.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentTop;
btn.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentLeft;