Add “padding” to a UITextView

Question

as the title says i am trying to add padding-like behavior to a UITextView. The textview is generated when the view is pushed inside my navigation controller and the following c

Answer 1

This is working in Swift 5:

textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 20, left: 20, bottom: 20, right: 20)

Answer 2

This answer is totally wrong. Correct answer is simply:

uitextview.textContainerInset =
       UIEdgeInsetsMake(8,5,8,5); // top, left, bottom, right

(Those values generally match how a UITextField on the same screen looks.)

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Use this one:

self.textView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(5, 5, 5, 5); 

Answer 3

For Swift 4.2:

textview.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 2, left: 10, bottom: 2, right: 10)

Answer 4

Simply create an extension of UITextView using Container Edge Inset as following:

extension UITextView {
    func leftSpace() {
        self.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 4, left: 6, bottom: 4, right: 4)
    }
}

and use it like:

let textView = UITextView()
textView. leftSpace() 

Answer 5

This worked for me using swift 2.0:

textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(10, 10, 10, 10)

Answer 6

For Swift 3 - the answer appears to be similar, but slightly different:

textview.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 2, left: 10, bottom: 2, right: 10)

(Actually, I used the above for a UIButtonView, but as it is so closed to the answers that were posted for UITextView I'm thinking [hoping] that it applies for that too)