iosuitextviewpadding

IOS - remove ALL padding from UITextView

There are many great examples on SO to remove the left padding of a UITextView.

How to lose margin/padding in UITextView?

However, I need to remove the right padding too.

I have tried...

[tv setContentInset: UIEdgeInsetsMake(-4,-8,-8,-X)];//where X is any integer

and just about every other permutation of the last two values to remove the padding and nothing seems to work. Have also tried

[tv sizeToFit];
[tv setTextAlignment:[NSTextAlignmentRight]];

The following Text in the Textview says "00"

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Solution

  • Although it is iOS 7 only, an extremely clean solution is to set the textView's textContainerInsets as such:

    [textView setTextContainerInset:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0; // to remove left padding

    This will effectively remove all padding (insets) around the text inside the text view. If your deployment target is iOS 7+ then this is the best solution thus far.