Cant center UILabel in titleView of navigationItem iOS8

Question

Im having trouble setting a programmatically allocated UILabel to be centered in my NavigationItem's titleView. Im even setting the NSAlignment to be NSAlignmentCenter. Here's an image of what it looks like:

As you can see.. I have no right UIBarButtonItem in use, but this shouldn't be keeping the text from being centered? Here's the code, in the viewDidLoad:

//Set the title of navBar----------

UILabel  *navTitleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 40)];  //0 0 320 10

navTitleLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
navTitleLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
navTitleLabel.textColor=[UIColor whiteColor];
navTitleLabel.text = @"IMG";
[navTitleLabel setFont: [UIFont fontWithName:@"BullettoKilla" size:16]];

self.navigationItem.titleView = navTitleLabel;

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

As pointed out by 0yeoj you have set the item width to 320. Try something smaller.

Answer 2

Try this UILabel *navTitleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 40)];