Bold & Non-Bold Text In A Single UILabel?

Question

How would it be possible to include both bold and non-bold text in a uiLabel?

I\'d rather not use a UIWebView.. I\'ve also read this may be possible using NSAttribut

Answer 1

Check out TTTAttributedLabel. It's a drop-in replacement for UILabel that allows you to have mixed font and colors in a single label by setting an NSAttributedString as the text for that label.

Answer 2

I've adopted Crazy Yoghurt's answer to swift's extensions.

extension UILabel {

    func boldRange(_ range: Range<String.Index>) {
        if let text = self.attributedText {
            let attr = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: text)
            let start = text.string.characters.distance(from: text.string.startIndex, to: range.lowerBound)
            let length = text.string.characters.distance(from: range.lowerBound, to: range.upperBound)
            attr.addAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: self.font.pointSize)], range: NSMakeRange(start, length))
            self.attributedText = attr
        }
    }

    func boldSubstring(_ substr: String) {
        if let text = self.attributedText {
            var range = text.string.range(of: substr)
            let attr = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: text)
            while range != nil {
                let start = text.string.characters.distance(from: text.string.startIndex, to: range!.lowerBound)
                let length = text.string.characters.distance(from: range!.lowerBound, to: range!.upperBound)
                var nsRange = NSMakeRange(start, length)
                let font = attr.attribute(NSFontAttributeName, at: start, effectiveRange: &nsRange) as! UIFont
                if !font.fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits.contains(.traitBold) {
                    break
                }
                range = text.string.range(of: substr, options: NSString.CompareOptions.literal, range: range!.upperBound..<text.string.endIndex, locale: nil)
            }
            if let r = range {
                boldRange(r)
            }
        }
    }
}

May be there is not good conversion between Range and NSRange, but I didn't found something better.

Answer 3

Swift 4:

// attribute with color red and Bold
var attrs1 = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 20), NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.red]

// attribute with color black and Non Bold
var attrs2 = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont(name: "Roboto-Regular", size: 20), NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.black]  

var color1 = NSAttributedString(string: "RED", attributes: attrs1)

var color2 = NSAttributedString(string: " BLACK", attributes: attrs2)

var string = NSMutableAttributedString()

string.append(color1)

string.append(color2)

// print the text with **RED** BLACK
print("Final String : \(string)")

Answer 4

Try a category on UILabel:

Here's how it's used:

myLabel.text = @"Updated: 2012/10/14 21:59 PM";
[myLabel boldSubstring: @"Updated:"];
[myLabel boldSubstring: @"21:59 PM"];

And here's the category

UILabel+Boldify.h

- (void) boldSubstring: (NSString*) substring;
- (void) boldRange: (NSRange) range;

UILabel+Boldify.m

- (void) boldRange: (NSRange) range {
    if (![self respondsToSelector:@selector(setAttributedText:)]) {
        return;
    }
    NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:self.attributedText];
    [attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:self.font.pointSize]} range:range];

    self.attributedText = attributedText;    
}

- (void) boldSubstring: (NSString*) substring {
    NSRange range = [self.text rangeOfString:substring];
    [self boldRange:range];
}

Note that this will only work in iOS 6 and later. It will simply be ignored in iOS 5 and earlier.

Answer 5

It worked for me:

CGFloat boldTextFontSize = 17.0f;

myLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ 2012/10/14 %@",@"Updated:",@"21:59 PM"];

NSRange range1 = [myLabel.text rangeOfString:@"Updated:"];
NSRange range2 = [myLabel.text rangeOfString:@"21:59 PM"];

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:myLabel.text];

[attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:boldTextFontSize]}
                        range:range1];
[attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:boldTextFontSize]}
                        range:range2];

myLabel.attributedText = attributedText;

For Swift version: See Here

Answer 6

There's category based on bbrame's category. It works similar, but allows you boldify same UILabel multiple times with cumulative results.

UILabel+Boldify.h

@interface UILabel (Boldify)
- (void) boldSubstring: (NSString*) substring;
- (void) boldRange: (NSRange) range;
@end

UILabel+Boldify.m

@implementation UILabel (Boldify)
- (void)boldRange:(NSRange)range {
    if (![self respondsToSelector:@selector(setAttributedText:)]) {
        return;
    }
    NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText;
    if (!self.attributedText) {
        attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:self.text];
    } else {
        attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:self.attributedText];
    }
    [attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:self.font.pointSize]} range:range];
    self.attributedText = attributedText;
}

- (void)boldSubstring:(NSString*)substring {
    NSRange range = [self.text rangeOfString:substring];
    [self boldRange:range];
}
@end

With this corrections you may use it multiple times, eg:

myLabel.text = @"Updated: 2012/10/14 21:59 PM";
[myLabel boldSubstring: @"Updated:"];
[myLabel boldSubstring: @"21:59 PM"];

will result with: "Updated: 2012/10/14 21:59 PM".