UITextView text not starting from top

Question

I have a UITextView. I want its text to start from top but I it is not coming from top. Please have a look at my code :

UITextView *myTextView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
myTextView.frame = rect;
myTextView.editable = NO;
myTextView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:MAIN_FONT_SIZE];
myTextView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
myTextView.text = sourceNode.label;
myTextView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll;
[cell.contentView addSubview:myTextView];
[myTextView sizeToFit];
[self alignTextToTopTextView:myTextView];

alignTextToTopTextView:

-(void)alignTextToTopTextView :(UITextView*)textView{

    CGRect frame = textView.frame;
    frame.size.height = textView.contentSize.height;
    textView.frame = frame;
}

Please see the below screenshot.

UITextView is on the right side.

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Left hand side view is UILabel and right hand side view is UITextView. Yes size for both is same. — Nitish, May 29 '12 at 04:21
Any issue in changing both as uilabels or both as uitextviews? — iOS Developer, May 29 '12 at 04:35
I think it is the normal behavior of the UITextView. What you can do is align UILabel according to the UITextView !!! — Damitha Raveendra, May 29 '12 at 04:38
I have to keep right view as UITextView as I need to detect strings for which I am using dataDetectors. There is no second point on changing it to UILabel. The left should has to be UILabel. — Nitish, May 29 '12 at 04:38
ok.from where u r getting rect? myTextView.frame = rect;Try to reduce that y value in the rect — iOS Developer, May 29 '12 at 04:41

Damitha Raveendra · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-04T19:03:28.753

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Set the Content Inset like this in your UITextView

youtextView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-7.0,0.0,0,0.0);

Adjust the Top value the way you want. this shoud fix your problem.

EDIT:

If you're having issues with iOS7 or above, try using...

[yourTextView setContentOffset: CGPointMake(x,y) animated:BOOL];

edited Mar 04 '15 at 19:03

answered May 29 '12 at 04:50

Damitha Raveendra

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looks good, but do you know how to calculate the top inset, rather than setting a fixed value? – daisy May 31 '16 at 09:31
any way to handle this for UITextView with variable font size? – igrek Nov 07 '16 at 09:40
Also work with `User Defined Runtime Attributes` in the Storyboard. – Nike Kov Aug 10 '17 at 14:17

score 47 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 05 '14 at 03:43

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in the viewDidLoad method add

self.automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false

answered Nov 05 '14 at 03:43

masouk

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If I add this line, and the text is long, this won't make any sense at all. So that I won't came here for a solution. – crazy_phage Nov 04 '15 at 01:45
@crazy_phage it works well even with long text, maybe you have some other constraints that disable this solution for you – Jesus Rodriguez Mar 07 '16 at 17:13
yeah,maybe, I was using sb that time, also with some weird code. – crazy_phage Mar 08 '16 at 01:37
This is the best solution for Swift, autolayout with and without storyboards. Thanks a ton! – Warpzit Jun 01 '16 at 14:14
Best answer ever. I tried all other solutions, only this one does the trick. Thanks – Supala Jun 29 '16 at 15:16
This is the best answer! Works with Xcode 7.3.1 and Swift 2.0. – Van Du Tran Aug 24 '16 at 21:53
This prevented text in my textFields from moving down when typing. Thank you – vikzilla Aug 16 '17 at 18:05

score 24 · Answer 3 · 2016-06-12T12:37:43.923

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I did this way. When scroll disable, the the text loaded from top. After load than enable scroll.

- (void)viewDidLoad{
myTextView.scrollEnabled = NO;  
}       
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
myTextView.scrollEnabled = YES;
}

edited Jun 12 '16 at 12:37

answered Feb 23 '16 at 22:44

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This is a solution. (iOS10.2 with swift3) – Pokemon Feb 22 '17 at 08:15
This worked for me in iOS 11 It seems strange this is necessary. – Hackmodford May 21 '18 at 01:15

Tung Fam · Answer 4 · 2017-09-11T09:48:12.570

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None of the existing solutions helped, but this helped:

Objective-C:

- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    [self.yourTextView setContentOffset:CGPointZero animated:NO];
}

Swift 3:

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    textView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0), animated: false)
}

edited Sep 11 '17 at 09:48

answered Mar 12 '17 at 11:25

Tung Fam

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 30 '17 at 13:43

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This is what I use

textView.textContainerInset = 
    UIEdgeInsetsMake(
        0,
        -textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding, 
        0, 
        -textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding
    )
;

answered Apr 30 '17 at 13:43

Fahim Parkar

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited May 08 '19 at 15:31

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self.yourTextView.scrollEnabled = NO;

self.yourTextView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0);

edited May 08 '19 at 15:31

Adrian P

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answered Jul 04 '17 at 12:03

vigneshwaran s

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Code-Only answers are not considered as good answers. Please improve your answer by providing more context and explanations. – ckruczek Jul 04 '17 at 12:26
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please write some explanation along with the code. code only answers are generally discouraged in SO --Review – Ram Ghadiyaram May 08 '19 at 19:12

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 12:00

- (void) viewDidLoad {
   [textField addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:(NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL];
   [super viewDidLoad];
}

-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
   UITextView *tv = object;
   //Center vertical alignment
   //CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height * [tv zoomScale])/2.0;
   //topCorrect = ( topCorrect < 0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect );
   //tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};

   //Bottom vertical alignment
   CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height);
    topCorrect = (topCorrect <0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect);
    tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};
}

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 01 '15 at 15:02

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Here is the answer

in Swift

termsTextView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, -220)

in Objective-C

[termsTextView setContentOffset: CGPointMake(0,-220) animated:NO];

answered Feb 01 '15 at 15:02

Sameera Chathuranga

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Your Swift code is not right version of Objective-C. It should be 'yourTextView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: -220), animated: true)' – Saqib Omer Aug 04 '15 at 12:28
This is the correct code for me it worked! Well done Sameera – Radu Nov 11 '15 at 17:50
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Suggested edit: `myTextView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, -myTextView.contentSize.height)` Rationale: The OP's UITextView is called `myTextView`, not `termsTextView`. And pulling the height dynamically makes the answer more useful to other readers (I hope), e.g. those that make UITextViews in the Interface Builder. – bjornte Jan 04 '16 at 10:52

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 02 '15 at 11:31

This happens after I setting the autoresizingMask property of the UITextView in both iOS 7 and 8.

I found a optional workaround:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [yourTextView scrollRectToVisible:CGRectMake(0, 0, yourTextView.contentSize.width, 10) animated:NO];
}

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 06 '19 at 02:36

If you just want text views laid out in storyboards to load properly without adding view controller management, this'll do it (iOS 12, Swift 4.2):

final class UITopLoadingTextView: UITextView {

    var shouldEnableScroll = false

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        shouldEnableScroll = isScrollEnabled
        self.isScrollEnabled = false
    }

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        isScrollEnabled = shouldEnableScroll
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered May 14 '19 at 18:57

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swift 4 solution:

self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))

answered May 14 '19 at 18:57

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 09 '23 at 19:26

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I just set the Y content offset to zero when I initialize the textview:

let textview: UITextView = .init(frame: .zero)
// initialize
textview.contentOffset.y=0

answered Mar 09 '23 at 19:26

shoe

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UITextView text not starting from top

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