Wrapping Text in a UITextView Around a UIImage WITHOUT CoreText

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Is there a way to wrap text from a UITextView around a UIImage without using CoreText?

I have been playing around with attributed strings without much luck, and CoreText just seems extremely complicated so I would rather stay out of it.

score 112 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 09 '13 at 13:46

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This seems to do the trick:

UIBezierPath * imgRect = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
self.textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = @[imgRect];

Works only from iOS 7 and up.

edited Dec 09 '13 at 13:46

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answered Nov 17 '13 at 17:22

Dannie P

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astounding, is self.textView just an ordinary UITextView ?? great tip. – Fattie Sep 24 '15 at 01:57
@JoeBlow yes, just a normal UITextView. Thanks ) – Dannie P Sep 24 '15 at 13:09
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How to add image in that rect area – TechChain Oct 19 '15 at 08:52
@deepakkumar I'd probably try adding your image view on top of UITextView at the needed location – Dannie P Mar 19 '16 at 15:45
Its possible on multiple images – Ben10 May 11 '16 at 10:34
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I would vote this as the single best iOS answer on StackOverflow! – paulvs Sep 04 '16 at 16:51
well explained in this article:https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/280-flowing-text-around-images-with-exclusion-paths – Hardik Darji Apr 04 '18 at 09:12

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '20 at 17:48

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In Swift 4:

self.textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(rect: imageView.frame)]

answered Jul 27 '20 at 17:48

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I kind need to add a UIView(), I'm trying `let view = UIView()` and `[UIBezierPath(rect: view.frame)]`, got no error but still not working... any idea? – Pablo Feb 02 '21 at 18:02
hmm.. has the view's frame been defined by the time this is being called? if using auto layout, you ma need to add this to `override func viewDidLayoutSubviews()` (if in `UIViewControlelr`) or `override func layoutSubviews()` (if in `UIView`). – Callum Feb 03 '21 at 20:06
This is what I'm trying https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66026071/how-can-i-add-uiview-to-uitextview?noredirect=1#comment116740501_66026071 – Pablo Feb 04 '21 at 10:17

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 22 '20 at 22:14

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The short answer is you can't without CoreText pre iOS 7.

I've been struggling with this myself a while ago and this post was very helpful to me.

It is CoreText though.

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answered Nov 04 '12 at 06:45

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Ok, thanks. I guess I'll just have to figure out this CoreText stuff. Thanks. – harryisaac Nov 05 '12 at 01:51

Wrapping Text in a UITextView Around a UIImage WITHOUT CoreText

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