UILabel text margin

Q:

I think I'm missing something really simple here but I'm looking to set the left inset/margin of a UILabel and can't seem to see a method to do so. The label has a background set so it would be ideal to inset the text by 10px or so on the left hand side. Any help would be appreciated.

A:

solved this by subclassingUILabeland overridingdrawTextInRect:like this:

- (void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    UIEdgeInsets insets = {0, 5, 0, 5};
    return [super drawTextInRect:UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, insets)];
}

As you might have gathered, this is an adaptation oftc.'s answer. It has two advantages over that one:

1. there's no need to trigger it by sending asizeToFitmessage
2. it leaves the label frame alone - handy if your label has a background and you don't want that to shrink

A:

I think you should override bothtextRectForBounds:limitedToNumberOfLines:anddrawTextInRect:like this:

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds limitedToNumberOfLines:(NSInteger)numberOfLines
{
    return CGRectInset(bounds, MARGIN, MARGIN);
}

- (void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    [super drawTextInRect: CGRectInset(self.bounds, MARGIN, MARGIN)];
}