How to set content inset for UITextView in Swift

In this tutorial, we will disclose a simple thing: How to set content inset for UITextView in Swift:

Let’s say you have the UITextView variable named textView.

To set the insets change the textContainerInset property of the textView.

For example, if you want the following insets: 10 from the top, 10 from the bottom, 20 from the left and right just set it this way:

textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 10, left: 20, bottom: 10, right: 20)

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Keep in mind that at the moment of writing this post we used Xcode 10 and Swift 5.
If anything will change in the future, it is OK, just use the new API calls.