How to add ellipses on a UITextView?

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I need to restrict number of lines in a UITextView to 2 and add ellipses to any overflowing text. How would I do that? For some implementation reasons I cannot use UILabel.

score 46 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 09 '17 at 13:10

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You can do that by setting the properties of the textContainer like so:

textView.textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = 2
textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

edited Nov 09 '17 at 13:10

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If the size of the view is right textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail is enough. – Warpzit Feb 07 '20 at 10:00

How to add ellipses on a UITextView?

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