iOS - UITableViewCell make text bold
ios, uitableview, xcode, xcode5
Solution
Your last part of it is wrong. You must create your `NSAttributedString` and finally trash the formatting by using
NSString *str = [string string];
As `NSString` doesn't know anything about formatting you have to use the `NSAttributedString` to assign it to the cell's `textLabel`:
cell.textLabel.attributedText = string;
Problem
I have a string: ``` NSString *userInfo = @"James Johnson @james"; ``` What i want to do is bold `James Johnson` and keep `@james` normal font. So what I have tried is using `NSAttributedString` but somewhere I'm doing something wrong in order to complete the process. This is what I have tried: ``` NSString *user = @"James Johnson @james"; UIFont *fontLight = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" size:14]; UIFont *fontBold = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:14]; NSMutableAttributedString *string = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]initWithString:userInfo]; //TESTING WITH RANDOM PARTS OF THE STRIN [string addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:fontLight range:NSMakeRange(0, 3)]; [string addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:fontBold range:NSMakeRange(3, 5)]; NSString *str = [string string]; cell.textLabel.text = str; ``` Is there a way I can make this work even if I'm on the wrong direction? What's not working For some reason, the characters from range 0 - 3 is not being a light font...instead the entire `cell.textLabel.text` is bold somehow and is not font size 14 which i had specified in the UIFont.