Getting UILabel to produce an ellipsis rather than shrinking the font

Question

When I dynamically change the text of a UILabel I would prefer to get an ellipsis (dot, dot, dot) rather then have the text be automatically resized. How does one do this?

Answer 1

I had an issue producing ellipsis after I styled a UILabel and needed to use UILabel.attributedText instead of UILabel.text. There is a line break mode on the paragraph style that will overwrite the UILabel.lineBreakMode when using attributed text. You'll need to set the lineBreakMode to .byTruncatingTail on the attributed string's paragraph style if you want to achieve ellipsis.

e.g.

    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "example long string", attributes: [...])
    let textRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: textString.length)
    let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
    paragraphStyle.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail
    textString.addAttribute(.paragraphStyle, value: paragraphStyle, range: textRange)
    uiLabel.attributedText = attributedString

Answer 2

Swift solution:

label.lineBreakMode = .ByTruncatingTail

Swift 3:

label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

Answer 3

Set the following properties:

Objective C

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;

Swift

label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = false
label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

You can also set these properties in interface builder.

Answer 4

I have achieved by following steps:

1.Increase height of label as I did so that 2 lines fit.

2.select label, go to attributes inspector

3.select Line Breaks = Word Wrap

4.also increase lines, like 2,3

Worked for me