Multiline Button Text

The button’s titleLabel property allows you to modify title attributes such as its font and line break mode. Here, the font is set to a very large value (basically ensuring that the text needs to wrap to display correctly) and used with word wrap and centered alignment:

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button.titleLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:36.0f]; [button setTitle:@"Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit" forState:     UIControlStateNormal]; button.titleLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter; button.titleLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

By default, button labels stretch from one end of your button to the other. This means that text may extend farther out than you might otherwise want, possibly beyond the edges ...

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