Changing navigation title programmatically
SwiftUinavigationbarTitleSwift Problem Overview
I have a navigation bar with a title. When I double click the text to rename it, it actually says it's a navigation item, so it might be that.
I'm trying to change the text using code, like:
declare navigation bar as navagationbar here
button stuff {
navigationbar.text = "title"
}
That's not my code obviously, just showing how it would work.
So whenever I press the button, I want the title to change.
Swift Solutions
Solution 1 - Swift
You change the title by changing the title of the view controller being displayed:
viewController.title = "some title"
Normally this is done in view did load on the view controller:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.title = "some title"
}
However, this only works if you have your view controller embedded in a UINavigationController. I highly recommend doing this instead of creating a navigation bar yourself. If you insist on creating a navigation bar yourself, you can change the title by doing:
navigationBar.topItem.title = "some title"
Solution 2 - Swift
Try the following in viewDidLoad
self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title"
Solution 3 - Swift
The code below works for me with Xcode 7:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title"
}
Solution 4 - Swift
I found this to work:
navigationItem.title = "Title"
Solution 5 - Swift
and also if you will try to create Navigation Bar
manually this code will help you
func setNavBarToTheView() {
let navBar: UINavigationBar = UINavigationBar(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: 64.0))
self.view.addSubview(navBar);
let navItem = UINavigationItem(title: "Camera");
let doneItem = UIBarButtonItem(barButtonSystemItem: UIBarButtonSystemItem.cancel, target: self, action: #selector(CameraViewController.onClickBack));
navItem.leftBarButtonItem = doneItem;
navBar.setItems([navItem], animated: true);
}
Solution 6 - Swift
The correct answer for people using [tag:swift4] would be
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationItem.title = "Your Text"
}
Solution 7 - Swift
Swift 5.1
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
navigationItem.title = "What ever you want"
}
Solution 8 - Swift
Normally, the best-practice is to set the title on the UIViewController
. By doing this, the UINavigationItem
is also set. Generally, this is better than programmatically allocating and initializing a UINavigationBar
that's not linked to anything.
You miss out on some of the benefits and functionality that the UINavigationBar
was designed for. Here is a link to the documentation that may help you. It discusses the different properties you can set on the actual bar and on a UINavigationItem
.
Just keep in mind:
- You lose back button functionality (unless you wire it yourself)
- The built-in "drag from the left-hand side to swipe back" gesture is forfeited
UINavigationController
's are your friends.
Solution 9 - Swift
Swift 3
I created an outlet for the navigation title bar item that comes with the navigation bar (from the Object Browser) in the storyboard. Then I sued the line below:
navigationBarTitleItem.title = "Hello Bar"
Solution 10 - Swift
If you have a NavigationController
embedded inside of a TabBarController
see below:
super.tabBarController?.title = "foobar"
You can debug issues like this with debugger scripts. Try Chisel's pvc
command to print every visible / hidden view on the hierarchy.
Solution 11 - Swift
If you wanted to change the title from a child view controller of a Page View Controller that's embedded in a navigation controller, it would look like this:
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
self.parent?.title = "some title"
}
Solution 12 - Swift
In Swift 4:
Swift 4
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.title = "Your title"
}
I hope it helps, regards!
Solution 13 - Swift
If you have not created navigation bar in your view controller from storyboard this will work.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.title = "Title"
}
If you have created navigation bar in your view controller from storyboard this will be helpful.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
navigationItem.title = "Title"
}
Solution 14 - Swift
in viewDidLoad
navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.title = "Your Text"
Solution 15 - Swift
I prefer using self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title Here"
over self.title = "Your Title Here"
to provide title in the navigation bar since tab bar also uses self.title
to alter its title. You should try the following code once.
Note: calling the super view lifecycle is necessary before you do any stuffs.
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setupNavBar()
}
}
private func setupNavBar() {
self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title Here"
}
Solution 16 - Swift
Swift 5.1
// Set NavigationBar Title Programmatically and Dynamic
Note :
First add NavigationControllerItem to Your ViewController
then goto their ViewController.swift
file and Just Copy and Paste this in viewDidLoad()
.
navigationItem.title = "Your Title Here"