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UITextView starts at Bottom or Middle of the text

I'll get right to it. I have a UItextView placed in my view that when needs to scroll to see all the text (when a lot of text is present in the textView) the textView starts in the middle of the text sometimes and the bottom of the text other times.

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Editing is not enabled on the textView. I need a way to force the textView to start at the top, every time. I saw some questions somewhat like this where other people used a content offset, but I do not really know how that works or if it would even be applicable here.

Thanks for your help.

Solution

  • This did the trick for me!

    Objective C:

    [self.textView scrollRangeToVisible:NSMakeRange(0, 0)];

    Swift:

    self.textView.scrollRangeToVisible(NSMakeRange(0, 0))

    Swift 2 (Alternate Solution)

    Add this override method to your ViewController

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    textView.setContentOffset(CGPointZero, animated: false)
}

    Swift 3 & 4 (syntax edit)

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
  super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
  
  textView.contentOffset = .zero
}