UILabel Wrapping

The default behavior of UILabel is not to wrap, and unless you set the number of lines you want it to have, it doesn't.

You can use a UITextView to wrap, but it doesn't have some of the properties that UILabel has, specifically shadows, and there's too much unncessary overhead there since it uses a scroll view.

I took matters into my own hands and wrote a "UILabelWrap" class. It'll wrap to as many lines as it can fit in the frame you set, and after that, it'll truncate the end.

Here's the code:

UILabelWrap.h:

UILabelWrap.m:

Update March 10, 2009: I've updated the code above with one important bug fix and a minor compatibility fix:

• Major: UILabelWrap now redraws when the frame size is changed, instead of stretching the text that was there. This will fix the issues when you rotate orientations.
• Compatibility: Renamed highlightedColor to highlightedTextColor to maintain compatibility as a drop in replacement for UILabel