Vertically align UILabel

Question

I am trying to vertically align the text in the UILabel view of my app. The problem is that I want the text to be vertically aligned to the top and the size of the label to be 280 x 150. I am only able to achieve one of these 2 things. If I remove the line

[myLabel sizeToFit];

then the alignment of the text is alright but the size is messed up. But if I add the above line, then the alignment is messed up but the size is alright. How do I fix this problem.

I've added the code below -

CGRect labelFrame = CGRectMake(22, 50, 280, 150);
UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:labelFrame];
[myLabel setText:finalRecipe];
[myLabel setBackgroundColor: [UIColor lightGrayColor]];
[myLabel setNumberOfLines:0];
[myLabel sizeToFit];
[self.view addSubview:myLabel];

Answer 1

I'm the author of FXLabel, and whilst I don't know Manish, I believe he was trying to help (if he was advertising for me, I certainly didn't ask him to, and I'm not paying him - sorry Manish!).

One of FXLabel's features is that it respects the UIContentMode property of the label, as set in Interface builder. This means you can set label.contentMode = UIViewContentModeTop; to align the text to the top of the label view (which doesn't work for a regular UILabel). The relevant example is here:

https://github.com/nicklockwood/FXLabel/tree/master/Examples/Text%20Alignment

FXLabel is a drop-in subclass of UILabel, so I think it's a pretty good solution for the question being posed. However if the poster would rather solve the problem without using a 3rd party library (which is understandable) then here is the code to do it:

CGRect labelFrame = CGRectMake(22, 50, 280, 150);
UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:labelFrame];
[myLabel setText:finalRecipe];
[myLabel setBackgroundColor: [UIColor lightGrayColor]];
[myLabel setNumberOfLines:0];

CGFloat fontSize = 0.0f;
labelFrame.size = [myLabel.text sizeWithFont:myLabel.font
                                minFontSize:myLabel.minimumFontSize
                             actualFontSize:&fontSize
                                   forWidth:labelFrame.width
                            lineBreakMode:myLabel.lineBreakMode];

myLabel.frame = labelFrame;
[self.view addSubview:myLabel];

Note:(This is untested, so apologies if there are any typos)