how to append Attributed Text String with Attributed String in Swift
Use NSMutableAttributedString
to achieve that.
Example
Swift 5
let yourAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.black, NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15)]
let yourOtherAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.red, NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 25)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: yourAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: yourOtherAttributes)
partOne.append(partTwo)
Swift 3
let yourAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.black, NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15)]
let yourOtherAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.red, NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 25)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: yourAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: yourOtherAttributes)
let combination = NSMutableAttributedString()
combination.append(partOne)
combination.append(partTwo)
combination
represents your final string which contains both formattings provided by yourAttributes
and yourOtherAttributes
Even older
let yourAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blackColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(15)]
let yourOtherAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(25)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: yourAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: yourOtherAttributes)
let combination = NSMutableAttributedString()
combination.appendAttributedString(partOne)
combination.appendAttributedString(partTwo)
@glace's answer, modified to avoid empty NSMutableAttributedString
declaration. Valid in Swift 3.1:
let yourAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blackColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(15)]
let yourOtherAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor(), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(25)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: yourAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: yourOtherAttributes)
partOne.append(partTwo)
partOne
is then your final string with all the attributes. No intermediate "combiner" necessary.
Swift 4
let yourAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.black, .font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15)]
let yourOtherAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.red, .font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 25)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: yourAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: yourOtherAttributes)
partOne.append(partTwo)
Swift 5
As per "glace" answer, I just update font attribute and swift version.
let boldFontAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.black, NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 17)]
let normalFontAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.darkGray, NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 15)]
let partOne = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "This is an example ", attributes: boldFontAttributes)
let partTwo = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "for the combination of Attributed String!", attributes: normalFontAttributes)
let combination = NSMutableAttributedString()
combination.append(partOne)
combination.append(partTwo)
lblUserName.attributedText = combination