UILabel line height in Swift

LineHeight

LineHeight, as shown in the image, is the height of a single text line including the font size too.

UILabel + LineHeight

Unfortunately, iOS native APIs won’t make anything available to the developer to set up the LineHeight within a UILabel. Apple offers two very powerful classes to solve this issue, which are NSMutableAttributedString and NSMutableParagraphStyle

As specified by Apple records:

The NSMutableParagraphStyle class adds methods to its superclass, NSParagraphStyle, for changing the values of the subattributes in a paragraph style attribute. See the NSParagraphStyle and NSAttributedString specifications for more information.

NSMutableParagraphStyle provides lineSpacing, which will be our solution.

LineSpacing allows the developer to apply a desired lineHeight to a text line.

I created an UILabel extension implementing a specific feature, setLineHeight(lineHeight: CGFloat), to complement this feature inside a UILabel.

This is the code fragment to implement within your projects:

import UIKit
 
extension UILabel {
    
    func setLineHeight(lineHeight: CGFloat) {
        let text = self.text
        if let text = text {
            let attributeString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
            let style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
            
            style.lineSpacing = lineHeight
            attributeString.addAttribute(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, value: style, range: NSMakeRange(0, count(text)))
            self.attributedText = attributeString
        }
    }
}