How to draw border around a UILabel?

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Is there a way for UILabel to draw a border around itself? This is useful for me to debug the text placement and to see the placement and how big the label actually is.

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9 Answers

You can set label's border via its underlying CALayer property:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

myLabel.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor
myLabel.layer.borderWidth = 3.0

Swift 5:

myLabel.layer.borderColor = UIColor.darkGray.cgColor
myLabel.layer.borderWidth = 3.0
user_1373500

UILabel properties borderColor,borderWidth,cornerRadius in Swift 4

@IBOutlet weak var anyLabel: UILabel!
   override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        anyLabel.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        anyLabel.layer.borderWidth = 2
        anyLabel.layer.cornerRadius = 5
        anyLabel.layer.masksToBounds = true
}
user_43657340

Solution for Swift 4:

yourLabel.layer.borderColor = UIColor.green.cgColor

user_88933230

Using an NSAttributedString string for your labels attributedText is probably your best bet. Check out this example.

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