With a non-editable UITextView, I would like to embed text like this in iOS9+:
Just click here to register
I can create a function and manipulate the text but is there a simpler way?
I see that I can use NSTextCheckingTypeLink so getting the text clickable without the 'click here' part is straightforward in Interface Builder:
Just http://example.com to register
I'm using Xcode 8 and Swift 3 if that's relevant.
Set isEditable = false
or the text view will go into text-editing mode when user taps on it.
Swift 4 and later
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Just click here to register")
let url = URL(string: "https://www.apple.com")!
// Set the 'click here' substring to be the link
attributedString.setAttributes([.link: url], range: NSMakeRange(5, 10))
self.textView.attributedText = attributedString
self.textView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
self.textView.isEditable = false
// Set how links should appear: blue and underlined
self.textView.linkTextAttributes = [
.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue,
.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue
]
The same solution for Swift 3 using extensions :
A. Add extension -
extension UITextView {
func hyperLink(originalText: String, hyperLink: String, urlString: String) {
let style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.alignment = .center
let attributedOriginalText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: originalText)
let linkRange = attributedOriginalText.mutableString.range(of: hyperLink)
let fullRange = NSMakeRange(0, attributedOriginalText.length)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSLinkAttributeName, value: urlString, range: linkRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, value: style, range: fullRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10), range: fullRange)
self.linkTextAttributes = [
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIConfig.primaryColour,
NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue,
]
self.attributedText = attributedOriginalText
}
}
B. Add link url - let linkUrl = "https://www.my_website.com"
C. Implement UITextViewDelegate
in your ViewController like this -
class MyViewController: UIViewController, UITextViewDelegate {
}
D. Add delegate method to handle tap events -
func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange) -> Bool {
if (URL.absoluteString == linkUrl) {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(URL)
}
return false
}
}
E. And finally, things to make sure for your UITextView
under attribute inspector -
- Behaviour - Editable is turned OFF & Selectable is turned ON.
- Data Detectors - Link is turned ON.
Usage -
textView.hyperLink(originalText: "To find out more please visit our website", hyperLink: "website", urlString: linkUrl)
Cheers & happy coding!
The same solution for Swift 4 using extensions:
extension UITextView {
func hyperLink(originalText: String, hyperLink: String, urlString: String) {
let style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.alignment = .left
let attributedOriginalText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: originalText)
let linkRange = attributedOriginalText.mutableString.range(of: hyperLink)
let fullRange = NSMakeRange(0, attributedOriginalText.length)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.link, value: urlString, range: linkRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value: style, range: fullRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor, value: UIColor.blue, range: fullRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.font, value: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10), range: fullRange)
self.linkTextAttributes = [
kCTForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blue,
kCTUnderlineStyleAttributeName: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue,
] as [String : Any]
self.attributedText = attributedOriginalText
}
}
You could use this simple method to add a hyperlink to any set of characters starting with tag
func addLink(forString string : NSMutableAttributedString
,baseURL : String
,tag : String){
let array = string.string.replacingOccurrences(of: "\n", with: " ").components(separatedBy: " ")
let filterArray = array.filter { (string) -> Bool in
return string.contains(tag)
}
for element in filterArray {
let removedHashtag = element.replacingOccurrences(of: tag, with: "")
let url = baseURL + removedHashtag
let range = NSString.init(string: (string.string)).range(of: element)
string.addAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.link : url.replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: "")], range: range)
}
}
I wanted to do the same thing and ended up just using a UIButton with the title "click here" surrounded by UILabels "just " and " to register", and then:
@IBAction func btnJustClickHereLink(_ sender: UIButton) {
if let url = URL(string: "http://example.com") {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}
}