align the text in UITableViewCell to the right

Question

I need to align the text in the cell to right.

but even when i set to right the text is align to left as show in the screen shot any idea why is this strange behaviour of the cell

cell.textLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;
cell.detailTextLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;

After reading related questions and answers on stackoverflow I could not find one solving my problem

Answer 1

No can not change the frame of titleLabel of Cell. Instead you can add custom label to contentView of cell.

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
static NSString * cellIdentifier = @"Cell";
UITableViewCell * cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

if (cell==nil) {
    cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

    UILabel *lblStatus = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12, 8, 175, 15)];
    lblStatus.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    [lblStatus setTag:101];
    [cell.contentView addSubview:lblStatus];

 }
UILabel *lbl1 = (UILabel *)[cell.contentView viewWithTag:101];
lbl1.text=@"set text";
}
return cell;
}

You can also achieve this by prototype cell. here is a good tutorial of prototype cell.

Answer 2

your coding is fine , u need to change the cell.textLabel. frame size to right side in my choice is use custom label