How to change the text of UINavigationBar back button?

Question

Hi, everyone,

I want to ask a question about the iPhone application. I create the UINavigationController programmatically. And I use the UITableView to do the following thing. However, I don't know how to change the text of the text in the back button (see below, in this case is 'Plays') in code level? Thank you very much.

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Answer 1

You have to actually change the text of the back button before pushing the new view controller onto the stack.Otherwise the back button text will not be displayed.

Answer 2

To customize the back button you modify the view controller you are going back to. So you can either set the title for your "Plays" view controller:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    // ...
    [self setTitle:@"Whatever"];
}

Or access the back button item:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    // ...
    // target/action must be nil
    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem =
        [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Whatever"
                                          style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered
                                         target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
}