I am having a trouble adding left padding on a UIButton. I have a UIButton with UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentLeft. I want the text to be displayed on the left side but it is too left. when I give the border, it doesn't look good. I would like to give some padding on the text about 5px like in CSS. I googled for the solution but can't find one particularly for UIButton.
titleEdgeInsets The inset or outset margins for the edges of the button title drawing rectangle.
@property(nonatomic) UIEdgeInsets titleEdgeInsets
Discussion Use this property to resize and reposition the effective drawing rectangle for the button title. You can specify a different value for each of the four insets (top, left, bottom, right). A positive value shrinks, or insets, that edge—moving it closer to the center of the button. A negative value expands, or outsets, that edge. Use the UIEdgeInsetsMake function to construct a value for this property. The default value is UIEdgeInsetsZero.
Availability Available in iOS 2.0 and later.
Declared In UIButton.h
Give this a try :)
[myButton setTitleEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 5.0, 0.0, 0.0)];
Also if you're using a custom button there is such a thing as Content Insets and Image Insets.
Incase you've made it here looking for Swift. This is valid Swift 3.0 😃
myButton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0.0, left: 5.0, bottom: 0.0, right: 0.0)
You can set it directly as well. It is helpful if want to use one or two properties.
myButton.titleEdgeInsets.top = 0
myButton.titleEdgeInsets.left = 5
myButton.titleEdgeInsets.bottom = 0
myButton.titleEdgeInsets.right = 0