How to set a margin in UITextView?

Question

I'm currently developing a simple text-editing app for iPad. I want to set left/right margins like the attached picture. Just adding UITextView into another UIView with larger width won't work because a scroll indicator won't be properly located.

Instead of UIView, I added UITextView into UIScrollView, and it works almost fine. But they sometimes show strange behaviors, and UITextViewDelegate doesn't work with my UIViewController.

Is there any way to set left/right margins only using UITextView? Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use the property textContainerInset

Following the example of George Green:

myTextView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0f, 10.0f, 0.0f, 10.0f);