How to add subviews to a UIButton via Storyboard?

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Is it not possible to add a subview to a UIButton via Storyboard? This answer suggests it is possible in code, but how do you do it via Storyboard? Dragging a UIView to become a child of a UIButton isn't working.

Aware of simple workarounds like creating a parent UIView to hold the UIButton and subviews, but this question focuses on whether it's possible to add subviews to a UIButton inside of Storyboard.

Refer to this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13374860/how-can-i-addsubview-to-uibutton-in-interface-builder — schmidt9, Mar 27 '16 at 07:18
@schmidt9 yes but that answer suggests it's not possible. are you saying this is the only way to do it? — Crashalot, Mar 27 '16 at 07:19
Yes, this is impossible, just do what they suggest in that answer :) — schmidt9, Mar 27 '16 at 07:29
you also can try to edit storyboard as an xml and put the subview manually inside UIButton declaration. 99% it wouldn't work but you can try) — heximal, Mar 27 '16 at 07:54

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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You cannot add subviews to UIButton in Interface Builder, use UIView as container, then add UIButton and whatever you want to it. Note, eg. you can place a UILabel on top of the button and if you do not set userInteractionEnabled = YES for that label, your button will still response to touch events. Also refer to this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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