iPhone/iPad UIButton TitleLabel text not appearing

Question

I created a grid of buttons. The following code creates the buttons and displays them, but there is no text on the button. Is there a setting I am missing? (Obj-C replies are fine, I'm bi-lingual)

RectangleF frame = new RectangleF (X + 3, Y + 3, cellWidth - 2, cellHeight - 2);
UIButton button = new UIButton (frame);
button.TitleLabel.Text = "Baha'i";
button.TitleLabel.Font = UIFont.FromName ("Helvetica-Bold", 15);
button.TitleLabel.TextColor = UIColor.Black;
button.TitleLabel.Frame = frame;
button.BackgroundColor = UIColor.FromWhiteAlpha(.5f,.5f);
this.AddSubview (button);

Why were you using capital letters for titleLabel? It's button.titleLabel, not button.**T**itleLabel. — Alex Zavatone, Nov 04 '15 at 13:05
I've detailed an explanation here http://stackoverflow.com/a/11417134/1149906 — Jesse Gumpo, Jun 07 '16 at 06:37

score 132 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 06 '13 at 10:06

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I think you want setTitle: forState:

[button setTitle:@"Baha'i" forState:UIControlStateNormal]

edited Sep 06 '13 at 10:06

Pang

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answered Mar 07 '10 at 02:41

Tobias Cohen

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What's interesting is that button.titleLable.text = @"Foo" doesn't always do the right thing. You have to set the title on the UIButton itself. – David Potter Feb 20 '12 at 23:27
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this is ridiculous button.titleLabel.text does no work but [button setTile:.. forState:] works wish it is set by default for normal state or something. Comments? – Gmu Sep 20 '13 at 04:07
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@Gmu They've found it very hard to implement at apple – LolaRun Sep 03 '14 at 22:18

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '11 at 19:14

A UIButton inherits from UIView, so another way to add text and images, is to add subview. Example:

// My Image
UIImage *buttonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"];
UIImageView *buttonImageView = [[[UIImageView alloc] 
    initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 
    buttonImage.size.width,buttonImage.size.height)] autorelease];
[buttonImageView setImage:buttonImage];

// My Label
UILabel* titleLabel = [[[UILabel alloc] 
    initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 
    buttonImage.size.width, buttonImage.size.height)] autorelease];
titleLabel.text = @"My Text";
titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size: 11.0];
titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
titleLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
titleLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;

// Create Button with Image and Label
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[button addSubview:buttonImageView];
[button addSubview:titleLabel];

A `UIButton` already has a label. Adding your own as you show isn't usually necessary. @tobias-cohen has the right answer for this question, and most cases. — Fabian, May 13 '13 at 21:08

Faizan Refai · Answer 3 · 2015-09-10T13:17:59.723

UIButton *  selectCountryBtn =  [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];  

[selectCountryBtn setTitle:@"My Title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Here, I have create sample programmatically button, and then set the title for its Normal Control state, You can use your own button object for set the title string, additionally you can also set title text for another control states by change UIControlStateNormal to another required states.

iDeveloper · Answer 4 · 2019-12-19T12:12:51.370

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For swift Developers-

button.setTitle("Your button Name", for: .normal)

edited Dec 19 '19 at 12:12

answered Oct 08 '16 at 11:59

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 15 '18 at 00:07

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In my case (Swift 4) it was the following:

btnLogin.setTitle("Welcome, " + var_name, for: [])

answered Nov 15 '18 at 00:07

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Feb 28 '21 at 13:58

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self.ButtonName.setTitle("Here Put Your variable model", for: .normal)

edited Feb 28 '21 at 13:58

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answered Feb 28 '21 at 13:57

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Isn’t this essentially the same as [@iDeveloper’s answer from three years ago](https://stackoverflow.com/a/39932067/3025856)? – Jeremy Caney Mar 01 '21 at 02:55

score -4 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 18 '13 at 10:43

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  self.Button_name.titleLabel.text = @"Your title name";

edited Jul 18 '13 at 10:43

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answered Feb 26 '13 at 10:57

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