Swift 4: Align TextView with UILabel

This is a very short example of how to align the contents of both views as UITextView comes with a natural “padding” that will offset the contents off its frame:

Before

Create a new custom TextView class and override draw.

class SLTextView: UITextView {    
    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {              
        textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0;        
        textContainerInset = .zero;    
}}

After

and … there you go! Nicely aligned text and label.

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