iPhone: Setting Navigation Bar Title

Question

Hey all. I'm still pretty new to iPhone development, and I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to change the title of my Navigation Bar. On another question on this site somebody recommended using :

viewController.title = @"title text";

but that isn't working for me...Do I need to add a UINavigationController to accomplish this? Or maybe just an outlet from my UIViewController subclass? If it helps, I defined the navigation bar in IB and I'm trying to set its title in my UIViewController subclass. This is another one of those simple things that gives me a headache. Putting self.title = @"title text"; in viewDidLoad and initWithNibName didn't work either. Anybody know what's happening and how to get it happening right?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There's one issue with using self.title = @"title";

If you're using Navigation Bar along with Tab bar, the above line also changes the label for the Tab Bar Item. To avoid this, use what @testing suggested

self.navigationItem.title = @"MyTitle";

Answer 2

What worked for me was self.titleLabel.text = @"New Title";

Answer 3

if you are doing it all by code in the viewDidLoad method of the UIViewController you should only add self.title = @"title text";

something like this:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.title = @"title";
}

you could also try self.navigationItem.title = @"title";

also check if your navigationItem is not null and if you have set a custom background to the navigationbar check if the title is set without it.

Answer 4

In my navigation based app I do this:

myViewController.navigationItem.title = @"MyTitle";

Answer 5

For all your Swift-ers out there, this worked perfectly for me. It's notably one of the shorter ways to accomplish setting the title, as well:

override public func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
  if segue.identifier == "presentLineItem" {
    print("Setting Title")
    var vc = segue.destinationViewController as! LineItemsTableViewController
    vc.navigationItem.title = "Line Item"
  }
}

Answer 6

The view controller must be a child of some UINavigationController for the .title property to take effect. If the UINavigationBar is simply a view, you need to push a navigation item containing the title, or modify the last navigation item:

UINavigationItem* item = [[UINavigationItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"title text"];
...
[bar pushNavigationItem:item animated:YES];
[item release];

or

bar.topItem.title = @"title text";