Add Padding to UILabel

Question

I want to add left padding to text in a UILabel programmatically. I've searched for a solution but nothing that I can get to work within my existing UILabel extension.

class TopSideHeaderLabel: UILabel {
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)

        adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
        font = UIFont(name: Theme.PrimaryFontSemiBold, size: 16)
        textColor = Theme.White

        backgroundColor = Theme.background2
        textAlignment = .left
    }
}

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '19 at 22:24

What about using insets?

class TopSideHeaderLabel: UILabel {
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)

        adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
        font = UIFont(name: Theme.PrimaryFontSemiBold, size: 16)
        textColor = Theme.White

        backgroundColor = Theme.background2
        textAlignment = .left
    }

    override func drawText(in rect: CGRect) {
        let insets = UIEdgeInsets.init(top: 10, left: 10, bottom: 10, right: 10)
        super.drawText(in: UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, insets))
    }
}

Add Padding to UILabel

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