Bold part of detailTextLabel in UITableViewCell

Question

As users search journals, I want to display a portion of the journal and the search term bolded in the detailTextLabel in UITableViewCell.

So like, SEARCH "today"

1/19/2014 Bright and sunnday, today is going to be a ...

How do you bold that word today, but not the rest of it?

cell.detailTextLabel.text = note.content;

You use an [NSAttributedString](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482346/how-do-you-use-nsattributedstring). [Heres another example](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3586871/bold-non-bold-text-in-a-single-uilabel) — MendyK, Mar 03 '15 at 03:32
possible duplicate of [Any way to bold part of a NSString?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6013705/any-way-to-bold-part-of-a-nsstring) — aksh1t, Mar 03 '15 at 03:33
would bolding NSString would make detailTextLabel bolded that part too? I think NSString doesn't strictly apply to detailTextLabel, but Ill try it again. I think I have tried that one point — coolcool1994, Mar 03 '15 at 03:35

coolcool1994 · Answer 1 · 2015-03-03T12:51:36.117

detailTextLabel has the method setAttributedText so you can make an attributedText which you can customize dramatically, and then you can set it.

NSMutableAttributedString * attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:note.content];
        NSRange boldedRange = NSMakeRange(0, 5);//        NSRange range = [displayingContent rangeOfString:self.notesSearchBar.text options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];

        [attributedText addAttribute: NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:16.0] range:boldedRange];
        [cell.detailTextLabel setAttributedText: attributedText];

Bold part of detailTextLabel in UITableViewCell

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