I don't want to use a subview if I can avoid it. I want a UIButton with a background image, text, and an image in it. Right now, when I do that, the image is on the left side of the text. The background image, text, and image all have different highlight states.
339
votes
To add another "hack" to the growing list here: you could set the attributedTitle of the button to an attributed string containing your button title + a space + the image (as an NSTextAttachment). You might need to tweak the attachment's bounds to get it to align as you want (see stackoverflow.com/questions/26105803/…).
– Manav
30 Answers
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Despite some of the suggested answers being very creative and extremely clever, the simplest solution is as follows:
button.semanticContentAttribute = UIApplication.shared
.userInterfaceLayoutDirection == .rightToLeft ? .forceLeftToRight : .forceRightToLeft
As simple as that. As a bonus, the image will be at the left side in right-to-left locales.
EDIT: as the question has been asked a few times, this is iOS 9 +.
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votes
Simplest solution:
iOS 10 & up, Swift:
button.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
button.titleLabel?.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
button.imageView?.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
Before iOS 10, Swift/Obj-C:
button.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1.0, 1.0);
button.titleLabel.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1.0, 1.0);
button.imageView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1.0, 1.0);
iOS 9 & up, Swift: (Recommended)
button.semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
301
votes
UPDATED FOR XCODE 9 (Via Interface Builder)
There's an easier way from the Interface Builder.
Select the UIButton and select this option in the View Utilities > Semantic:
That's it! Nice and simple!
OPTIONAL - 2nd step:
If you want to adjust the spacing between the image and the title you can change the Image Inset here:
Hope that helps!
176
votes
Subclassing UIButton is completely unnecessary. Instead you can simply set a high left inset value for the image insets, and a small right inset for the title. Something like this:
button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0., button.frame.size.width - (image.size.width + 15.), 0., 0.);
button.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0., 0., 0., image.size.width);
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I'm giving Inspire48 the credit for this one. Based on his suggestion and looking at that other question I came up with this. Subclass UIButton and override these methods.
@implementation UIButtonSubclass
- (CGRect)imageRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect
{
CGRect frame = [super imageRectForContentRect:contentRect];
frame.origin.x = CGRectGetMaxX(contentRect) - CGRectGetWidth(frame) - self.imageEdgeInsets.right + self.imageEdgeInsets.left;
return frame;
}
- (CGRect)titleRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect
{
CGRect frame = [super titleRectForContentRect:contentRect];
frame.origin.x = CGRectGetMinX(frame) - CGRectGetWidth([self imageRectForContentRect:contentRect]);
return frame;
}
@end
80
votes
Just update the insets when the title is changed. You need to compensate for the inset with an equal and opposite inset on the other side.
[thebutton setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];
thebutton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -thebutton.imageView.frame.size.width, 0, thebutton.imageView.frame.size.width);
thebutton.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, thebutton.titleLabel.frame.size.width, 0, -thebutton.titleLabel.frame.size.width);
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25
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Update: Swift 3
class ButtonIconRight: UIButton {
override func imageRect(forContentRect contentRect:CGRect) -> CGRect {
var imageFrame = super.imageRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
imageFrame.origin.x = super.titleRect(forContentRect: contentRect).maxX - imageFrame.width
return imageFrame
}
override func titleRect(forContentRect contentRect:CGRect) -> CGRect {
var titleFrame = super.titleRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
if (self.currentImage != nil) {
titleFrame.origin.x = super.imageRect(forContentRect: contentRect).minX
}
return titleFrame
}
}
Original answer for Swift 2:
A solution that handles all horizontal alignments, with a Swift implementation example. Just translate to Objective-C if needed.
class ButtonIconRight: UIButton {
override func imageRectForContentRect(contentRect:CGRect) -> CGRect {
var imageFrame = super.imageRectForContentRect(contentRect)
imageFrame.origin.x = CGRectGetMaxX(super.titleRectForContentRect(contentRect)) - CGRectGetWidth(imageFrame)
return imageFrame
}
override func titleRectForContentRect(contentRect:CGRect) -> CGRect {
var titleFrame = super.titleRectForContentRect(contentRect)
if (self.currentImage != nil) {
titleFrame.origin.x = CGRectGetMinX(super.imageRectForContentRect(contentRect))
}
return titleFrame
}
}
Also worth noting that it handles quite well image & title insets.
Inspired from jasongregori answer ;)
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I decided not to use the standard button image view because the proposed solutions to move it around felt hacky. This got me the desired aesthetic, and it is intuitive to reposition the button by changing the constraints:
extension UIButton {
func addRightIcon(image: UIImage) {
let imageView = UIImageView(image: image)
imageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
addSubview(imageView)
let length = CGFloat(15)
titleEdgeInsets.right += length
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
imageView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.titleLabel!.trailingAnchor, constant: 10),
imageView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.titleLabel!.centerYAnchor, constant: 0),
imageView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: length),
imageView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: length)
])
}
}
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If this need to be done in UIBarButtonItem, additional wrapping in view should be used
This will work
let view = UIView()
let button = UIButton()
button.setTitle("Skip", for: .normal)
button.setImage(#imageLiteral(resourceName:"forward_button"), for: .normal)
button.semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
button.sizeToFit()
view.addSubview(button)
view.frame = button.bounds
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: view)
This won't work
let button = UIButton()
button.setTitle("Skip", for: .normal)
button.setImage(#imageLiteral(resourceName:"forward_button"), for: .normal)
button.semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
button.sizeToFit()
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: button)
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Do Yourself. Xcode10, swift4,
For programmatically UI design
lazy var buttonFilter : ButtonRightImageLeftTitle = {
var button = ButtonRightImageLeftTitle()
button.setTitle("Playfir", for: UIControl.State.normal)
button.setImage(UIImage(named: "filter"), for: UIControl.State.normal)
button.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left
button.titleLabel?.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
return button
}()
Edge inset values are applied to a rectangle to shrink or expand the area represented by that rectangle. Typically, edge insets are used during view layout to modify the view’s frame. Positive values cause the frame to be inset (or shrunk) by the specified amount. Negative values cause the frame to be outset (or expanded) by the specified amount.
class ButtonRightImageLeftTitle: UIButton {
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
guard imageView != nil else { return }
imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 5, left: (bounds.width - 35), bottom: 5, right: 5)
titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: -((imageView?.bounds.width)! + 10), bottom: 0, right: 0 )
}
}
for StoryBoard UI design
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Here is solution for UIButton with center aligned content.
This code make image right aligned and allows to use imageEdgeInsets and titleEdgeInsets for precious positioning.
Subclass UIButton with your custom class and add:
- (CGRect)imageRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect {
CGRect frame = [super imageRectForContentRect:contentRect];
CGFloat imageWidth = frame.size.width;
CGRect titleRect = CGRectZero;
titleRect.size = [[self titleForState:self.state] sizeWithAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName: self.titleLabel.font}];
titleRect.origin.x = (self.frame.size.width - (titleRect.size.width + imageWidth)) / 2.0 + self.titleEdgeInsets.left - self.titleEdgeInsets.right;
frame.origin.x = titleRect.origin.x + titleRect.size.width - self.imageEdgeInsets.right + self.imageEdgeInsets.left;
return frame;
}
- (CGRect)titleRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect {
CGFloat imageWidth = [self imageForState:self.state].size.width;
CGRect frame = [super titleRectForContentRect:contentRect];
frame.origin.x = (self.frame.size.width - (frame.size.width + imageWidth)) / 2.0 + self.titleEdgeInsets.left - self.titleEdgeInsets.right;
return frame;
}
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votes
Extension Way
Using extension to set image on the right side with custom offset
extension UIButton {
func addRightImage(image: UIImage, offset: CGFloat) {
self.setImage(image, for: .normal)
self.imageView?.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
self.imageView?.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.centerYAnchor, constant: 0.0).isActive = true
self.imageView?.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.trailingAnchor, constant: -offset).isActive = true
}
}
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Being that the transform solution doesn't work in iOS 11 I decided to write a new approach.
Adjusting the buttons semanticContentAttribute gives us the image nicely to the right without having to relayout if the text changes. Because of this it's the ideal solution. However I still need RTL support. The fact that an app can not change it's layout direction in the same session resolves this issue easily.
With that said, it's pretty straight forward.
extension UIButton {
func alignImageRight() {
if UIApplication.shared.userInterfaceLayoutDirection == .leftToRight {
semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
}
else {
semanticContentAttribute = .forceLeftToRight
}
}
}
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Swift -Extend the UiButton and put these lines
if let imageWidth = self.imageView?.frame.width {
self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -imageWidth, 0, imageWidth);
}
if let titleWidth = self.titleLabel?.frame.width {
let spacing = titleWidth + 20
self.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, spacing, 0, -spacing);
}
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Building on Piotr Tomasik's elegant solution: if you want to have a bit of spacing between the button label and image as well, then include that in your edge insets as follows (copying my code here that works perfectly for me):
CGFloat spacing = 3;
CGFloat insetAmount = 0.5 * spacing;
// First set overall size of the button:
button.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, insetAmount, 0, insetAmount);
[button sizeToFit];
// Then adjust title and image insets so image is flipped to the right and there is spacing between title and image:
button.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -button.imageView.frame.size.width - insetAmount, 0, button.imageView.frame.size.width + insetAmount);
button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, button.titleLabel.frame.size.width + insetAmount, 0, -button.titleLabel.frame.size.width - insetAmount);
Thanks Piotr for your solution!
Erik
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votes
Took @Piotr's answer and made it into a Swift extension. Make sure to set the image and title before calling this, so that the button sizes properly.
extension UIButton {
/// Makes the ``imageView`` appear just to the right of the ``titleLabel``.
func alignImageRight() {
if let titleLabel = self.titleLabel, imageView = self.imageView {
// Force the label and image to resize.
titleLabel.sizeToFit()
imageView.sizeToFit()
imageView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit
// Set the insets so that the title appears to the left and the image appears to the right.
// Make the image appear slightly off the top/bottom edges of the button.
self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: -1 * imageView.frame.size.width,
bottom: 0, right: imageView.frame.size.width)
self.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 4, left: titleLabel.frame.size.width,
bottom: 4, right: -1 * titleLabel.frame.size.width)
}
}
}
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Subclassing and over-riding layoutSubviews is probably your best way to go.
Referenced from: iPhone UIButton - image position
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A swift option that does what you want without playing with any insets:
class RightImageButton: UIButton {
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
if let textSize = titleLabel?.intrinsicContentSize(),
imageSize = imageView?.intrinsicContentSize() {
let wholeWidth = textSize.width + K.textImageGap + imageSize.width
titleLabel?.frame = CGRect(
x: round(bounds.width/2 - wholeWidth/2),
y: 0,
width: ceil(textSize.width),
height: bounds.height)
imageView?.frame = CGRect(
x: round(bounds.width/2 + wholeWidth/2 - imageSize.width),
y: RoundRetina(bounds.height/2 - imageSize.height/2),
width: imageSize.width,
height: imageSize.height)
}
}
struct K {
static let textImageGap: CGFloat = 5
}
}
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Solutions mentioned here stopped working, once I enabled Auto Layout. I had to come up with my own:
Subclass UIButton and override layoutSubviews method:
//
// MIThemeButtonImageAtRight.m
// Created by Lukasz Margielewski on 7/9/13.
//
#import "MIThemeButtonImageAtRight.h"
static CGRect CGRectByApplyingUIEdgeInsets(CGRect frame, UIEdgeInsets insets);
@implementation MIThemeButtonImageAtRight
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
CGRect contentFrame = CGRectByApplyingUIEdgeInsets(self.bounds, self.contentEdgeInsets);
CGRect frameIcon = self.imageView.frame;
CGRect frameText = self.titleLabel.frame;
frameText.origin.x = CGRectGetMinX(contentFrame) + self.titleEdgeInsets.left;
frameIcon.origin.x = CGRectGetMaxX(contentFrame) - CGRectGetWidth(frameIcon);
self.imageView.frame = frameIcon;
self.titleLabel.frame = frameText;
}
@end
static CGRect CGRectByApplyingUIEdgeInsets(CGRect frame, UIEdgeInsets insets){
CGRect f = frame;
f.origin.x += insets.left;
f.size.width -= (insets.left + insets.right);
f.origin.y += (insets.top);
f.size.height -= (insets.top + insets.bottom);
return f;
}
Result:
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swift 3.0 Migration solution given by jasongregori
class ButtonIconRight: UIButton {
override func imageRect(forContentRect contentRect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
var imageFrame = super.imageRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
imageFrame.origin.x = super.titleRect(forContentRect: contentRect).maxX - imageFrame.width
return imageFrame
}
override func titleRect(forContentRect contentRect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
var titleFrame = super.titleRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
if (self.currentImage != nil) {
titleFrame.origin.x = super.imageRect(forContentRect: contentRect).minX
}
return titleFrame
}
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Xcode 11.4 Swift 5.2
For anyone trying to mirror the Back button style with the chevron like this:
import UIKit
class NextBarButton: UIBarButtonItem {
convenience init(target: Any, selector: Selector) {
// Create UIButton
let button = UIButton(frame: .zero)
// Set Title
button.setTitle("Next", for: .normal)
button.setTitleColor(.systemBlue, for: .normal)
button.titleLabel?.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 17)
// Configure Symbol
let config = UIImage.SymbolConfiguration(pointSize: 19.0, weight: .semibold, scale: .large)
let image = UIImage(systemName: "chevron.right", withConfiguration: config)
button.setImage(image, for: .normal)
// Add Target
button.addTarget(target, action: selector, for: .touchUpInside)
// Put the Image on the right hand side of the button
// Credit to liau-jian-jie for this part
button.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
button.titleLabel?.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
button.imageView?.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: -1.0, y: 1.0)
// Customise spacing to match system Back button
button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0.0, left: -18.0, bottom: 0.0, right: 0.0)
button.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0.0, left: -12.0, bottom: 0.0, right: 0.0)
self.init(customView: button)
}
}
Implementation:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let nextButton = NextBarButton(target: self, selector: #selector(nextTapped))
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nextButton
}
@objc func nextTapped() {
// your code
}
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If you want string to be on the left and image on the right, this should be fine (Swift 5)
/// [ String ------------------ Image ] Style Custom Button
/// For use, just define 'Title Text' and 'Image' on ib / source with setting the class 'DistantTextImageButton'.
class DistantTextImageButton: UIButton {
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
self.semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
self.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left
guard let imageView = imageView,
let title = title(for: .normal),
let font = titleLabel?.font else { return }
imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: bounds.width - imageView.bounds.width - title.textSizeWithFont(font).width, bottom: 0, right: 0)
titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
}
}
extension String {
func textSizeWithFont(_ font: UIFont) -> CGSize {
return self.size(withAttributes: [.font: font])
}
}
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Swift 3:
open override func imageRect(forContentRect contentRect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
var frame = super.imageRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
let imageWidth = frame.size.width
var titleRect = CGRect.zero
titleRect.size = self.title(for: self.state)!.size(attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: self.titleLabel!.font])
titleRect.origin.x = (self.frame.size.width - (titleRect.size.width + imageWidth)) / 2.0 + self.titleEdgeInsets.left - self.titleEdgeInsets.right;
frame.origin.x = titleRect.origin.x + titleRect.size.width - self.imageEdgeInsets.right + self.imageEdgeInsets.left;
return frame
}
open override func titleRect(forContentRect contentRect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
var frame = super.titleRect(forContentRect: contentRect)
if let imageWidth = self.image(for: self.state)?.size.width {
frame.origin.x = (self.frame.size.width - (frame.size.width + imageWidth)) / 2.0 + self.titleEdgeInsets.left - self.titleEdgeInsets.right;
}
return frame
}
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How about Constraints? Unlike semanticContentAttribute, they don't change semantics. Something like this perhaps:
button.rightAnchorconstraint(equalTo: button.rightAnchor).isActive = true
or in Objective-C:
[button.imageView.rightAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:button.rightAnchor].isActive = YES;
Caveats: Untested, iOS 9+
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After trying multiple solutions from around the internet, I was not achieving the exact requirement. So I ended up writing custom utility code. Posting to help someone in future. Tested on swift 4.2
// This function should be called in/after viewDidAppear to let view render
func addArrowImageToButton(button: UIButton, arrowImage:UIImage = #imageLiteral(resourceName: "my_image_name") ) {
let btnSize:CGFloat = 32
let imageView = UIImageView(image: arrowImage)
let btnFrame = button.frame
imageView.frame = CGRect(x: btnFrame.width-btnSize-8, y: btnFrame.height/2 - btnSize/2, width: btnSize, height: btnSize)
button.addSubview(imageView)
//Imageview on Top of View
button.bringSubviewToFront(imageView)
}
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Swift 4 & 5
Change the direction of UIButton image (RTL and LTR)
extension UIButton {
func changeDirection(){
isArabic ? (self.contentHorizontalAlignment = .right) : (self.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left)
// left-right margin
self.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5)
self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5)
}
}
