Autolayout of 2 multiline UILabels

Question

I'm making an "Latest news" XIB that I will reuse through my storyboard.

The thing is that the XIB file is for some reason having a much greater height than it should. I have tried using preferredMaxLayoutWidth or setting the height constraint to be a >= x but nothing worked.

Here is my view hierarchy, and the constraints of the views:

The result is this:

Here is the hierarchy of the storyboard scene:

I hope this is enough information, and thanks in advance!

Answer 1

My guess from looking at your nib layouts is that the top level Container is constrained to the top and bottom of it's super view. That constraint is probably beating out the other constraints. Break those constraints and see if that helps.

Answer 2

The problem was that the Content Hugging Priority and the Content Compression Resistance Priority weren't correctly set, so the UIImageView on the left was always expanding to its maximum height.

The problem was gone once the Content Priorities were set so the text on the right was determining the height of the container.