You have to use an UITextView
instead of an UITextField
.
Then, you can use the sizeThatFits
method.
But first you have to know how high one line will be. You can get that information by using lineHeight
:
var amountOfLinesToBeShown: CGFloat = 6
var maxHeight: CGFloat = yourTextview.font.lineHeight * amountOfLinesToBeShown
After that, just call the sizeThatFits
method inside your viewDidLoad
method and set the maxHeight (line * 6
) as your textview height:
yourTextview.sizeThatFits(CGSizeMake(yourTextview.frame.size.width, maxHeight))