Adding padding to an UIView

Question

I\'m looking for a way to add a padding property to an UIView. Ideally, I would like to avoid subclassing and putting it in a category. The usage would be somet

Answer 1

You can override the alignmentRectInsets property. Here is an example in Swift 4

class YourCustomView: UIView {

    override var alignmentRectInsets: UIEdgeInsets {
        return UIEdgeInsets(top: 10, left: 10, bottom: 10, right: 10)
    }
}

Answer 2

You can inset the view's frame/bounds like this:

    yourView.frame = yourView.frame.inset(by: UIEdgeInsets(top: .zero, left: 5.0, bottom: 5.0, right: .zero)

Answer 3

Update for Swift 4:

self.yourView.layoutMargins = UIEdgeInsets(top: 8, left: 8, bottom: 8, right: 8)

Answer 4

Update for Swift 3

view.bounds = view.frame.insetBy(dx: 10.0, dy: 10.0)

:)

Answer 5

Update: Since iOS11 you should use directionalLayoutMargins instead of layoutMargins.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiview/1622566-layoutmargins?language=objc

Since iOS 8, each view has now a layoutMargins property which corresponds to the padding.

myview.layoutMargins = UIEdgeInsetsMake(10, 10, 10, 10);

When you use AutoLayout, a format with |-[subview]-|, |- will refer to the edges defined with layoutMargins.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiview/1622566-layoutmargins?language=objc

Answer 6

What you really have to do is create a view and add a subview to it. Make one view the background and give it the frame you want. Then make the second subview the frame you want with the edge insets.

UIView backgroundView = new UIView(CGRect.FromLTRB(0, 0, 100, 100))
{
    BackgroundColor = backgroundGray,
};

//Will have a right edge inset of 10
UIView edgyView = new UIView(CGRect.FromLTRB(0, 0, 90, 100))
{
    BackgroundColor = backgroundGray,
}

backgroundView.AddSubview(edgyView);