Multiple lines of text in UILabel

Question

Is there a way to have multiple lines of text in UILabel like in the UITextView or should I use the second one instead?

Answer 1

Set the line break mode to word-wrapping and the number of lines to 0:

// Swift textLabel.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping textLabel.numberOfLines = 0  // Objective-C textLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping; textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;  // C# (Xamarin.iOS) textLabel.LineBreakMode = UILineBreakMode.WordWrap; textLabel.Lines = 0;   

Restored old answer (for reference and devs willing to support iOS below 6.0):

textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap; textLabel.numberOfLines = 0; 

On the side: both enum values yield to 0 anyway.

Answer 2

In IB, set number of lines to 0 (allows unlimited lines)

When typing within the text field using IB, use "alt-return" to insert a return and go to the next line (or you can copy in text already separated out by lines).