IOS - remove ALL padding from UITextView
IosUitextviewPaddingIos Problem Overview
There are many great examples on SO to remove the left padding of a UITextView.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/746670/how-to-lose-margin-padding-in-uitextview
However, I need to remove the right padding too.
I have tried...
[tv setContentInset: UIEdgeInsetsMake(-4,-8,-8,-X)];//where X is any integer
and just about every other permutation of the last two values to remove the padding and nothing seems to work. Have also tried
[tv sizeToFit];
[tv setTextAlignment:[NSTextAlignmentRight]];
The following Text in the Textview says "00"
Ios Solutions
Solution 1 - Ios
Although it is iOS 7 only, an extremely clean solution is to set the textView's textContainerInsets as such:
[textView setTextContainerInset:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0; // to remove left padding
This will effectively remove all padding (insets) around the text inside the text view. If your deployment target is iOS 7+ then this is the best solution thus far.
Solution 2 - Ios
To completely remove all padding, the lineFragmentPadding
must be taken into account.
let padding = textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding
textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: -padding, bottom: 0, right: -padding)
The lineFragmentPadding
default value is 5, and is at the beginning and end of fragment rectangle.
Some answers suggested setting lineFragmentPadding
to 0. However, as per discussed in the doc, it is not designed to express text margins. So do not set it to 0.
Solution 3 - Ios
Swift 4 version for the OA
self.tDescription.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets.zero
self.tDescription.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0
Solution 4 - Ios
For iOS 11.7
Following code worked for me:
textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = CGFloat(0.0)
textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
textView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0,left: 0,bottom: 0,right: 0)
From the Official Documentation:
textContainerInset
: It is possible to set the text container and view sizes and resizing behavior so that the inset
cannot be maintained exactly, although the text system tries to maintain the inset
wherever possible.
In any case, the textContainerOrigin
and size of the text container are authoritative as to the location of the text container within the view.
The text itself can have an additional inset, inside the text container, specified by the lineFragmentPadding
method of NSTextContainer
.
Solution 5 - Ios
Please try sub-classing the UITextView and overriding the following method:
- (id)styleString
{
return [[super styleString] stringByAppendingString:@"; line-height: 1.6em;margin-right: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"];
}
Apparently; you can tweak the margin-left, margin-top & whatever you want ;)
Solution 6 - Ios
My problem is solved this way
if([Utils isiOS7orHigher]){
commentView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
}else {
commentView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-11,-8,0,0);
}
for more see http://foobarpig.com/iphone/get-rid-of-uitextview-padding.html