How to draw border around a UILabel?

Question

Is there a way for UILabel to draw a border around itself? This is useful for me to debug the text placement and to see the placement and how big the label actually is.

Accepted Answer

You can set label's border via its underlying CALayer property:

```
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

myLabel.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor
myLabel.layer.borderWidth = 3.0
```

Swift 5:

```
myLabel.layer.borderColor = UIColor.darkGray.cgColor
myLabel.layer.borderWidth = 3.0
```

How to draw border around a UILabel?

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