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Label: top value

Hi!

I created a label and gave it "top: 5".

After that i added it to my view and instead of being on the top, it is in the middle of my view.

Now i tested and i i give it "top: -220" it is on the top.

Are the any ways to make this "normal"? (i mean that top 0 is the top of my view?)

— asked June 10th 2010 by Michael Gajda
  • iphone
  • mobile
  • positioning
  • top
  • view
1 Comment

  • I've seen this same issue. Has anyone discovered why it behaves this way?

    — commented October 18th 2010 by DeRon Brown

1 Answer

  • Accepted Answer

    Add these values to your label var:

    width:'auto',

    height:'auto',

    — answered November 15th 2010 by Undici Design
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    2 Comments

    • This the correct reason. You need to specify a height and a width for the label for it not to take up 100% of the area in the parent.

      — commented November 15th 2010 by Kevin Whinnery

    • Thank you so much for this. I pulled out my hair for about an hour (I shave my head) trying to figure out why Android and iOS was giving me different results as to the placement of a label. Android didn't care about the omission of height:'auto', but labels in iOS behave normally now.

      — commented August 13th 2011 by Darren Adams
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