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.