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iOS

Posted by Junaid Abd
Junaid Abd
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

How to Change text font UITextView- Text loaded from array?

I have a UITextView, the text is loaded from an array into the textView when th app is loaded. How can I change the font, colour and size of the text?

Language-Swift

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,710 Points

Hiya!

How do you want to change these properties? In response to an event, such as a button click?

Steve.

Junaid Abd
Junaid Abd
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

Hey, When the view loads, the elements in the array are loaded into the textView, I want the text to be the font I chose. So basically when the text loads it must be a different font, size and colour.

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,710 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,710 Points

You can change the font size, color etc in the attributes inspector when you sepect your storyboard.

Steve.

Junaid Abd
Junaid Abd
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

i did that, but when the text loads from the string it appears in the default size, colour and font.

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,710 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,710 Points

You can also amend the properties programatically. 

var font: UIFont!
var textColor: UIColor!

I'll have a mess about with these to see if I can get them to work.

Steve.