Drawing a simple line in a UILabel - ios

Question

Is there a way to add a simple line through a UILabel. I have a 40px high UILabel and simply want to draw a black line horizontally through the middle (at 20px). Is there a way to do this without having to create an image and setting it as the background?

Answer 1

if your label consist text then you can use strike through in label like this.
Objective-C
NSString *newStringStrike = #"your text";
NSMutableAttributedString *attributeString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:newStringStrike];
[attributeString addAttribute:NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName
value:#1
range:NSMakeRange(0, [attributeString length])];
labelName.attributedText = attributeString;

Answer 2

Yes, there are couple of ways. For example, you can add 1-point height subview to the label:
Swift 3.0 update:
let lineView = UIView(
frame: CGRect(x: 0,
y: label.bounds.size.height / 2,
width: label.bounds.size.width,
height: 1
)
)
lineView.backgroundColor = UIColor.black
label.addSubview(lineView)

Answer 3

You should be able to subclass UILabel and overwrite the drawRect method.

Answer 4

You can do it by using UILabel
height=1 width=as you need
and make its background colour as black and put it on your 40px UILabel. Hope this gonna help you.

Answer 5

#Anil solanki's answer using Swift 3.1:
let newStringStrike = "your text"
let attributeString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: newStringStrike)
attributedString.addAttribute(NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName, value: 1, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))
labelName.attributedText = attributedString

Answer 6

in swift4:
let newStringStrike = "your text"
let attributeString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: newStringStrike)
attributeString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.strikethroughStyle, value: 1, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributeString.length))
yourLabel = attributeString

Answer 7

simply create an NSAttributedString and assign to your label
let newStringStrike = "your text"
let attributeString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: newStringStrike)
attributeString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.strikethroughStyle, value: 1, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributeString.length))
yourLabel.attributedText = attributeString

Answer 8

Based on previous answers you can define something like this for swift 5
extension UILabel{
func setTextWithStrike(text: String)
{
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.strikethroughStyle, value: 1, range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))
self.attributedText = attributedString
}
}
and then use it like this:
labelWithStike.setTextWithStrike(text: "text with strike")