Line Breaks and Number of Lines in Swift Label (Programmatically)

Question

By selecting a Label in a StoryBoard, I can select Line Break to be Word Wrap and change number of lines to be more than 1. How can I do that Programmatically in Swift?

Answer 1

You can do this to set it programmatically

 label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping  label.numberOfLines = 3 

Swift 3/4

label.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping label.numberOfLines = 3 

Answer 2

If you want the label to have multiple lines, do this:

var myLabel:UILabel = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(7, 200, 370, 100)) myLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping myLabel.numberOfLines = 0                      //'0' means infinite number of lines 

Do remember to increase the height in "CGRectMake(7, 200, 370, 100)"         <-- This
Otherwise the label won't be able to take the multiple lines of text.