How to add indents to Multiple lines of UILabel?

Question

While I found how to add indentations to first line (FirstLineHeadIndent) and to the rest of lines (HeadIndent), I cannot find how to add indents to only first two/three lines in order to achieve something like this:

PS: This is not a duplicate, because I'm not asking how to indent only first line, as one user suggested.

Answer 1

You need to set your UILabel text as Attributed string in storyboard.

Then you can edit the indentation of each line, and you can also paste any text you've created with text editor and it will keep its indentation as well as other attributes.

You can of course manipulate these attributes programmatically, here is an example:

@IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!
 let text = "\tfirst line\n \tsecond line\nthird line\nforth line"

 let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
 paragraphStyle.tabStops = [NSTextTab(textAlignment: NSTextAlignment.left, location: 15, options: [:])]
 paragraphStyle.headIndent = 10

 label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: text, attributes: [NSParagraphStyleAttributeName: paragraphStyle])

Here is an example of how to configure it:

Here is how to configure indentation:

Here is the example on the simulator: