How to make width of view equal to superview in SwiftUI

Question

I have Button

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struct ContentView : View {
    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            Button(action: {}) {
                Text("MyButton")
                    .color(.white)
                    .font(Font.system(size: 17))
            }
            .frame(height: 56)
            .background(Color.red, cornerRadius: 0)
        }
    }
}

But I want to pin it to supreview's edges (trailing to superview's trailing and leading). Like this:

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HStack doesn't help me, and it's expecting. Fixed frame or width equals UIScree.size are not flexible solutions.

DenFav · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-20 16:33:10Z

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You need to use .frame(minWidth: 0, maxWidth: .infinity) modifier

Add the next code

        Button(action: tap) {
            Text("Button")
                .frame(minWidth: 0, maxWidth: .infinity)
                .background(Color.red)
        }
        .padding(.horizontal, 20)

Padding modifiers will allow you to have some space from the edge.

Keep in mind that the order of modifiers is essential. Because modifiers are functions that are wrapping the view below (they do not change properties of views)

edited Sep 20, 2022 at 16:33

answered Jun 8, 2019 at 17:42

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Argas Over a year ago

.infinity is a nice thing, thank you! But it's imposible to set some instets to superview. But if set .frame(minWidth: 0, maxWidth: .infinity) to Text, and add padding() to Button - it will work!

Gautam Shrivastav Over a year ago

How can I add specific height for the button? Like if I have to set the button's height as 43px, how can I do that?

perte Over a year ago

One small addition, is that now you can use the .padding(.horizontal, 20) if you want the padding on both sides, without mentioning left and right individually.

GrandSteph Over a year ago

Why minWidth: 0 ? When I remove it I find my view larger than the parent view. I don't understand the logic here

Shrikant Phadke Over a year ago

.frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width - 32 , height: 48, alignment: .center) & dont use padding. This also works

Marius Waldal · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-09 09:51:38Z

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You can use GeometryReader: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/geometryreader

According to Apple:

This view returns a flexible preferred size to its parent layout.

It is a flexible solution, as it changes according to the parent layout changes.

edited Jun 9, 2019 at 9:51

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answered Jun 8, 2019 at 17:16

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user3565259 Over a year ago

I can confirm that this works to set the button to file the entire width, however I can't seem to add padding to either size of the button.

arun siva Over a year ago

Don't add code as picture

Climbatize Over a year ago

I edited to add some code example based on this solution

Sherwin Zadeh · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-11 19:33:58Z

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Here's a pure SwiftUI solution where you want to fill the width of the parent but constrain the height to an arbitrary aspect ratio (say you want square images):

        Image("myImage")
            .resizable()
            .scaledToFill()
            .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
            .aspectRatio(16.0 / 9.0, contentMode: .fit)

Just replace 16.0 / 9.0 with whatever aspect ratio you want.

I spent about a day trying to figure this out because I didn't want to use GeometryReader or UIScreen.main.bounds (which isn't cross-platform)

Edit: Found an even simpler way.

edited Feb 11, 2021 at 19:33

answered Nov 18, 2020 at 22:00

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Mojtaba Hosseini · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-20 20:55:00Z

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💡iOS 17

From iOS 17, the correct way to do this is to use .containerRelativeFrame modifier because using .infinity width on the frame actually pushes the parent's frame to have an infinite width.

So it would be like:

Button(action: {}) {
    Text("MyButton")
        .foregroundStyle(.white)
        .containerRelativeFrame(.horizontal) // 👈 This should be inside the `label` parameter of the `button`. Otherwise it would be NOT touchable
        .padding(-10) // 👈 This is here to make space to the edges. Yes it should have a NEGATIVE value
}
.frame(height: 56)
.background(.red)

answered Jun 20, 2023 at 20:55

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Tejas · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-26 06:43:48Z

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Simple adding following to your code will make the button extend edge to edge. (You can add padding as well if you want)

.frame(minWidth: 0, maxWidth: .infinity)

The entire Button code will look like this:

struct ContentView : View {
    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            Button(action: {}) {
                Text("MyButton")
                    .color(.white)
                    .font(Font.system(size: 17))
            }
            .frame(minWidth: 0, maxWidth: .infinity)
            .padding(.top, 8)
            .padding(.bottom, 8)
            .background(Color.red, cornerRadius: 0)
        }
    }
}

answered Sep 26, 2019 at 6:43

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Argas · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-08 18:22:59Z

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I found one solution:

var body: some View {
    Button(action: {}) {
            HStack {
                Spacer()
                Text("MyButton")
                    .color(.white)
                    .font(Font.system(size: 17))
                Spacer()
            }
            .frame(height: 56)
            .background(Color.red, cornerRadius: 0)
        }.padding(20)
}

But I'm not sure that it is the best. May be someone will find more elegant solution/

edited Jun 8, 2019 at 18:22

answered Jun 8, 2019 at 17:04

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Zorayr Over a year ago

One issue here is that the button is tappable outside of its visible bounds. What that means is that the user can incorrectly tap on a button, even if they were tapping on whitespace.

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