Making text bold using attributed string in swift

Question

I have a string like this

var str = "@text1 this is good @text1"

Now replace text1 with another string, say t 1. I am able to replace the text, but i am not able to bold it. I want to bold the new string t 1, so that the final output will be:

@t 1 this is good @t 1

How can I do it?

All the examples I am seeing are in Objective-C, but I want to do it in Swift.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

var normalText = "Hi am normal"

var boldText  = "And I am BOLD!"

var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string:normalText)

var attrs = [NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 15)]
var boldString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: boldText, attributes:attrs)

attributedString.append(boldString)

When you want to assign it to a label:

yourLabel.attributedText = attributedString

Answer 2

I extended David West's great answer so that you can input a string and tell it all the substrings you would like to embolden:

func addBoldText(fullString: NSString, boldPartsOfString: Array<NSString>, font: UIFont!, boldFont: UIFont!) -> NSAttributedString {
    let nonBoldFontAttribute = [NSFontAttributeName:font!]
    let boldFontAttribute = [NSFontAttributeName:boldFont!]
    let boldString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: fullString as String, attributes:nonBoldFontAttribute)
    for i in 0 ..< boldPartsOfString.count {
        boldString.addAttributes(boldFontAttribute, range: fullString.rangeOfString(boldPartsOfString[i] as String))
    }
    return boldString
}

And then call it like this:

let normalFont = UIFont(name: "Dosis-Medium", size: 18)
let boldSearchFont = UIFont(name: "Dosis-Bold", size: 18)
self.UILabel.attributedText = addBoldText("Check again in 30 days to find more friends", boldPartsOfString: ["Check", "30 days", "find", "friends"], font: normalFont!, boldFont: boldSearchFont!)

This will embolden all the substrings you want bolded in your given string

Answer 3

Super easy way to do this.

    let text = "This string is having multiple font"
    let attributedText = 
    NSMutableAttributedString.getAttributedString(fromString: text)

    attributedText.apply(font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 24), subString: 
    "This")

    attributedText.apply(font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 24), onRange: 
    NSMakeRange(5, 6))

For more detail click here: https://github.com/iOSTechHub/AttributedString

Answer 4

usage....

let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString()
            .appendWith(weight: .semibold, "almost bold")
            .appendWith(color: .white, weight: .bold " white and bold")
            .appendWith(color: .black, ofSize: 18.0, " big black")

two cents...

extension NSMutableAttributedString {

    @discardableResult func appendWith(color: UIColor = UIColor.darkText, weight: UIFont.Weight = .regular, ofSize: CGFloat = 12.0, _ text: String) -> NSMutableAttributedString{
        let attrText = NSAttributedString.makeWith(color: color, weight: weight, ofSize:ofSize, text)
        self.append(attrText)
        return self
    }

}
extension NSAttributedString {

    public static func makeWith(color: UIColor = UIColor.darkText, weight: UIFont.Weight = .regular, ofSize: CGFloat = 12.0, _ text: String) -> NSMutableAttributedString {

        let attrs = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: ofSize, weight: weight), NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: color]
        return NSMutableAttributedString(string: text, attributes:attrs)
    }
}

Answer 5

Swift 3.0

Convert html to string and font change as per your requirement.

do {

     let str = try NSAttributedString(data: ("I'm a normal text and <b>this is my bold part . </b>And I'm again in the normal text".data(using: String.Encoding.unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!), options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType], documentAttributes: nil)

     myLabel.attributedText = str
     myLabel.font =  MONTSERRAT_BOLD(23)
     myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.left
} catch {
     print(error)
}

func MONTSERRAT_BOLD(_ size: CGFloat) -> UIFont
{
    return UIFont(name: "MONTSERRAT-BOLD", size: size)!
}

Answer 6

If you're working with localised strings, you might not be able to rely on the bold string always being at the end of the sentence. If this is the case then the following works well:

e.g. Query "blah" does not match any items

/* Create the search query part of the text, e.g. "blah". 
   The variable 'text' is just the value entered by  the user. */
let searchQuery = "\"\(text)\""

/* Put the search text into the message */
let message = "Query \(searchQuery). does not match any items"

/* Find the position of the search string. Cast to NSString as we want
   range to be of type NSRange, not Swift's Range<Index> */
let range = (message as NSString).rangeOfString(searchQuery)

/* Make the text at the given range bold. Rather than hard-coding a text size,
   Use the text size configured in Interface Builder. */
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: message)
attributedString.addAttribute(NSFontAttributeName, value: UIFont.boldSystemFontOfSize(label.font.pointSize), range: range)

/* Put the text in a label */
label.attributedText = attributedString