resizing text in UITextView

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How do I resize the text in my UITextView so that it doesn't cut off the text? I have a UITextView set at a specific height and I want the text in that UITextView to fit in that height. In a UITextField you have a adjustSizeToWidth, but not in UITextView

as far as i know UITextView is a scrollable View, so why would you want to squeeze your text in a specific height when you can just scroll through the text? — robustus, Jul 02 '12 at 21:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2487402/253008

EDIT:

You can use

-(CGSize)sizeWithFont:(UIFont *)font constrainedToSize:(CGSize)size

to check the width of the text in the UITextView and then when it reaches your set width you can start lowering the font size

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Jul 02 '12 at 21:14

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I wanted the height to be fixed and the text to resize it's font. Not the other way around – adit Jul 02 '12 at 21:47
this is tedious as I'll have to try a font one by one – adit Jul 02 '12 at 22:09
well you'll have the font you started with, everytime you reach the constrained width just subtract your font size by 1. I'm sure that's pretty much how UITextField does it – shabbirv Jul 02 '12 at 22:14

resizing text in UITextView

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