How to center UILabel in the Content View of a tableview cell?

Question

I'm having trouble centring a UILabel in a tableview cell. I set the constraints in a prototype cell, and everything seems to be okay, but when running the label actually shows up at the left side of the cell. Any idea why this happens and how to fix it?

How it looks like in xCode

and when run on my iPhone

Answer 1

At first select the label and then go to Align and select Vertically in Container . It will do the work for you.

Programatically you can do -

yourlabelName.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center

or

cell.textLabelName?.textAlignment = .center

Answer 2

It looks like you fill wrong label. Make sure you set value to myLabel , cell.myLabel.text = "9:00" , and not to cell.textLabel?.text .

Answer 3

As much as I hate to answer my own question, but I will leave it here, maybe helps someone in the future...

The problem was solved using this . The tableview cell had its own class. The content view had to be set to UIView instead of the custom class. The cell itself still keeps the properties of your custom class.