Remove UITextView extra border

Question

I've made a UITextView yet there's some unwanted spacing:

(I'm drawing the white box separately). I'm fairly certain I got the coordinates right since if I scroll it gets cut off at the right places:

How can I make the text be drawn further to the left, and also to have the top-most position be further on the top? That is, I'd like it to look like this:

I've tried [[textView layer] setBorderWidth:0.0f], but to no avail - it already doesn't have a border. This is what it looks like if I set the border width to 2 and to the color red:

I'm curious where the extra spacing is coming from and how to control it.

Answer 1

Have you tried experimenting with textContainerInset?

According to the docs at developer.apple.com, "This property provides text margins for text laid out in the text view." This is new in iOS 7.

Answer 2

It seems that the following does the trick:

UITextView *textView = ...;
[textView setContentInset:UIEdgeInsetsMake(-10, -8, 0, 0)];

The result is exactly as I wanted it to be. This isn't too satisfying as it uses magic numbers, so if anyone has a better answer, feel free to comment or answer.