Auto change the font size to fit the button in swift

Question

I have tried this but it didn't work, the text is out of the button boundaries.

button.titleLabel!.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
button.titleLabel!.numberOfLines = 0
button.titleLabel!.minimumScaleFactor = 0.1

When I try the following, all the text fits, but the text remains in a small font:

button.titleLabel!.font = UIFont(name: "Heiti TC", size: 9)

How can I get the font to automatically fit the size of the button?

 func nextQuestion() {

    let currentQuestion = mcArray![questionIdx]

    answers = currentQuestion["Answers"] as! [String]
    correctAnswer = currentQuestion["CorrectAnswer"] as? String
    question = currentQuestion["Question"] as? String

    titlesForButtons()
}

func titlesForButtons() {
    for (idx,button) in answerButtons.enumerate() {
        button.titleLabel!.lineBreakMode = .ByWordWrapping

        button.titleLabel!.font = UIFont(name: "Heiti TC", size: 5)

        button.titleLabel!.numberOfLines = 0

        button.titleLabel!.minimumScaleFactor = 0.1

        button.titleLabel!.baselineAdjustment = .AlignCenters

        button.titleLabel!.textAlignment  = NSTextAlignment.Center

        button.setTitle(answers[idx], forState: .Normal)
        button.enabled = true
        button.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 83.0/255.0, green: 184.0/255.0, blue: 224.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
    }

    questionLabel.text = question
    startTimer()
}

That is the code I have so far it gets the answers from a plist file

It did not work the text was the same size and got out of the button boundary — acekidd, Jun 27 '16 at 21:12

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 11:11

You can try this:

1.define the title size based on the current font size of your button

let nsTitle = NSString(string:"yourButtonTitle")
let font = button.titleLabel?.font
let titleSize = nsTitle.sizeWithAttributes([NSFontAttributeName:font])

2.check whether your title fits the button title label :

if titleSize.width > button.titleLabel?.bounds.width{

    //set the appropriate font size

}else{

    //set the appropriate font size or do nothing
}

Alex Bailey · Answer 2 · 2019-01-24T22:40:02.083

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This worked for me:

 button.titleLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "Avenir Next", size: 20)
    button.titleLabel?.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
    button.titleLabel?.numberOfLines = 1
    button.titleLabel?.minimumScaleFactor = 0.1
    button.clipsToBounds = true

edited Jan 24 '19 at 22:40

answered Dec 15 '16 at 11:15

Alex Bailey

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 28 '18 at 10:16

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Adjust font size to fit width

Swift

self.button.titleLabel?.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true

Objective-C

[self.button.titleLabel setAdjustsFontSizeToFitWidth:YES];

edited May 28 '18 at 10:16

alexander.polomodov

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answered May 28 '18 at 09:54

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '16 at 06:55

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UIButton font scaling can be very fickle, I've had problems with it in the past. What I did was make the number of lines equal to 1, which worked for me.

answered Jul 07 '16 at 06:55

Tim

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Auto change the font size to fit the button in swift

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