I have a UIScrollView, inside this UIScrollView I have a UIView and inside the UIView I have some UITextField's, some UILabel's and at the bottom there is a UITableView.
I want the UITableView to fit it's content height, the UIView to fit it's content height and the UIScrollView to fit it's content height.
The UITableView height might change as I add / remove cells from it during usage.
What is the best way to handle it using AutoLayout?
- UIViewController
-- UIView
--- UIScrollView
---- UIView
----- UILabel
----- UITextField
----- UITextView
----- UITableView (at the bottom of the superview)
or as in the xib:
The best way to implement this is to scrap the hierarchy that you have now and do the following...
- UIViewController (or UITableViewController)
--- UITableView
----- UIView (as the tableView.tableHeaderView)
------- UILabel
------- UITextField
------- UITextView
----- Rest of the cells for the table view.
The tableView.tableHeaderView is a single (not reusable, concrete) view that is placed at the top of the content of the table view and scrolls with the content of the table view. It doesn't stick to the top of the screen like a section header view does.
This will allow you to delete the scroll view and place everything inside the table view and still doesn't change the methods that you are using to populate the cells as that remains untouched.
#Jan Greve is correct. But if you still want to do it
Set Bottom Space to Container constraint between the Table View and its super view to 0
Increase/decrease the height constraint of the Table View with each insert/delete (You will have to do this programmatically)
Set the content offset of the scrollview to the new view height
The best part of AutoLayout is now you don't have to worry about UIScrollView content size.
If you set all constraints properly(without any warnings) AutoLayout manage content size for scrollView itself.
Set all subview's constraints but don't add height and width constraints.
And for contentSize add bottom constraint of inner view (subview of scrollview) to UIScrollView. This will increaser scrollView content size and height as per inner view expand or shrink.
For more details: I asked question for same, you can check it. You can find code in question itself.
You can set a fixed height to the tableView and link the constraint to an outlet. Then you'd need to override viewDidLayoutSubviews() in order to set the height dynamically based on the contentSize of the table:
#IBOutlet weak var dynamicTVHeight: NSLayoutConstraint!
internal override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
let height = min(self.view.bounds.size.height, self.tableView.contentSize.height)
self.dynamicTVHeight.constant = height
self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
}
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I'm trying to create layout that it structured like this:
- View
-- ScrollView
--- ContentView
---- CustomView
---- CustomView
---- TableView
---- CustomView
The tableView itself is auto-resizable using "invalidateIntrinsicContentSize" and when I add items - the height of the tableview changes, pushing the custom view below it further down.
Once enough items are added I the bottom custom view is hidden and the scroll doesn't work.
important fact - the bottom custom view doesn't have a bottom constraint. It is pushed down by the it's top constraint to the tableView.
If I do set a bottom constraint - the table view will no longer be dynamically resized.
The intended behaviour:
When a user adds items to the list and the list gets too big the ContentView will be scrollable so the user can scroll to see the bottom view.
The actual behaviour:
When a user adds items to the list and the list gets too big, the bottom view is pushed down and outside of sight and content is not scrollable.
What is happening and how can I fix it?
Below is what I think what is happening.
Since you are using UITableView, it has its own scroll view. So when the UITableView list gets too big, UITableView itself becomes scrollable rather than ScrollView's contentView becoming scrollable.
To achieve what you need, you would have to make the UITableView not scrollable and use the intrinsicHeight of the UITableView to get the actual height of UITableView along with all the items. If you have items with varying heights, it will be a problem because you won't know the height before rendering. With same height for all the rows, you can get the total height of the UITableView and set the height constraint to that value. This will increase the contentSize of the outer ScrollView, making it scrollable.
Apart from UITableView, you can also use UIStackView. This is because you are not using the reusing capabilities of UITableView anyways. Managing the datasource and delegates should not be a big problem.
You can create a constraint for tableview height, And take its reference to your swift file, by dragging it as you take other views. Now in your code, Just do this
tableViewHeightConstraint.constant = tableViewNoOfItems * tableViewCellHeight;
if you have set other constraints perfectly inside scrollview, It should work perfectly. Means TableView should have top, bottom, left, right margined constraints from the ScrollView.
try this code
tblViewHeight.constant = CGFloat( tableview row count * 45 )
var size = contentView.systemLayoutSizeFitting(UILayoutFittingCompressedSize)
if size.height < scrollView.frame.size.height
{
size = scrollView.frame.size
}
contenViewHeight.constant = size.height - scrollView.frame.size.height
scrollView.contentSize.height = contenViewHeight.constant
What I think you could do is:
Disable tableView's scroll tableView.isScrollEnabled = false
Every time a user adds items to the list, reload the tableView
Also using UIStackView with vertical axis and .fillEqually distribution as a Content View would be much more convenient as you won't need to set any positional constraints to your views, but may need to set height constraints if intrinsic content size can't be determined by the engine
I have a scrollview contains all views on the viewcontroller including a tableview. all views are scrolled like this :
but I want that the tableview stay at buttom of page and just increase its height like this :
I changed all constrains and googled but I couldnot find solution to this.How and Where I can increase table height when scrollview scrolls?
You can increase table size with respect to scrollView contantSize in viewDidLayoutSubView() method
Provide a fixed height constraint to UITableView in storyboard or xib. Make an outlet for that constraint
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super .viewDidLayoutSubviews()
self.constraintTableViewHeight.constant = self.scrollView.ContentSize.height
}
Hope it help. Happy codding:)
After so much trouble i am able to scroll the scrollview, and it is working fine. Now my question is how to set the dynamic height of scrollview and main view after adding view inside scroll view. As adding height from IB make it static and inside content height may very.
steps that i followed are.
Added a uiview controller inside my storyboard.
Then inside this uiview added one uiscrollview.
Set the height of the main view to 1000 and scrollview to 1000.
Selected the uiscrollview and reset it to suggested constraint.
In this uiscrollview i added many labels, uiviews, textviews, etc programatically.
Now the main isuue is this 1000 height that i set in step 3 is static and the content is dynamic, so how to set height dynamically. and also is it necessary to follow step 4, when i am doing it programatically.
If you know the new subview's height, you can change the frame size by
// Add your subview to scroll view
...
// Set new height
CGRect newScrollFrame;
newScrollFrame.origin = MyScrollView.frame.origin;
newScrollFrame.size = CGSizeMake(MyScrollView.frame.size.width, MyScrollView.frame.size.height + MyNewSubView.frame.size.height);
MyScrollView.frame = newScrollFrame;
I have a ViewController. In it I put ScrollView with the View(contentView). Later I drag from contentView to View and set Equal Height. Now it scrolls, but not fully.
As you see there are it has continue below the textView, but it
doesn't scrolls. How can I fix it?
UIScrollView is able to automatically calculate it's content height and width, but you need to help it with this.
To do so you need to:
Bound contentView (in your case) to all sides of superview (which is Scroll View).
Let contentView to calculate it's sizes. Here is a small mistake in your approach. You've set height of the contentView equal to View's height. So basically Scroll View's contentSize.height is the same as View's height. Which is not really what you want with dynamic content.
Usually you want to set width of the contentView equal to View's width and do not set contentView's height. Instead you want to bind subviews of contentView to their superview in such a way that their superview (contentView) will calculate it's height automatically.
In your case I would bind:
pizza.jpg to left-top-right of superview (height of pizza.jpg will be set from intrinsic image size);
SAMPLE TITLE label - left-right to superview; top to pizza.jpg image;
Text View - left-bottom-right to superview; top to SAMPLE TITLE label; set a fixed height.
In this case contentView will define needed height by itself. Scroll View will set it's contentSize accordingly.
And your screen will be able to scroll vertically (it should be) ;)
You need to set the contentsize of the scrollview. Use the below code to do that:
func viewDidLayoutSubviews()
{
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, self.contentView.frame.size.height);
}
To use Autolayout with UIScrollView is tricky.
In your code you have to update height constraint for your contentView by calculating height of subviews of contentView and that will automatically update the contentSize for your ScrollView and you can scroll through all subviews.
For more info to use Autolayout+UIScrollView your can read this.
According to this link (thanks to this Matt's answer first), UIScrollView acts differently with AutoLayout than the other views.
Subviews of a scrollView set their constraints from the contentView of the scrollView and not the scrollview directly. This allows the content to scroll.
So :
Add a UIView to your scrollView, this will represent the contentView of your scrollView. Add constraints to top, bottom, trailing, leading from the view to its superView
Interface Builder complains. Here you see the different between a basic view and a scrollView. The reason is a contentView has to be fill to know its size. So add a equal width from the contentView to the scrollView
The contentView knows now its width but not its height. So add your labels and your UIImage as subviews of the contentView. Add constraints from bottom to the top. Don't miss to add a height constraint to the UIImageView.
It should look like this :
Hope this helps
Read this (from Matt once again) for further informations
I used storyboard with autolayout enable. I put a UIScrollView in storyboard. Then drag a UITableView over the scrollview. I set the table view's width bigger than the scroll view's width. I then set the constraints with the trailing space to scrollview with a negative number and storyboard fill all other constraints without error. The structure look like:
UIView
UIScrollView
UITableView
in code, I set the scroll view content size:
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(500, 400);
the size matches table view's size. But it doesn't work. The table view will not scroll horizontally. What I am doing wrong and how to make a UITableView scroll horizontally. I mean the whole table, not the each cell scroll horizontally. Thanks for your help.