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Jon Erickson
Jon Erickson

Reputation: 1976

iOS UITextField not clearing when editing

I have a standard UITextField that I have added to a UITableViewCell and whenever I go to edit it, the text that is in it will not clear out. I have tried placing a placeholder and that too will not clear when editing. What's going on?

if (indexPath.row == 1) {
        cell.textLabel.text = @"Device ID";
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
        deviceID = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(115, 11, 388, 22)];
        deviceID.delegate = self;
        deviceID.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
        deviceID.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:15];
        deviceID.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        deviceID.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
        deviceID.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;
        deviceID.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentLeft;
        deviceID.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing;
        deviceID.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
        deviceID.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        deviceID.delegate = self;
        deviceID.clearsOnBeginEditing = YES;
        deviceID.text = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:DEVICE_ID];
        [deviceID setEnabled:YES];
        [cell addSubview:deviceID];
    }

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldClear:(UITextField *)textField {

    return YES;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1517

Answers (4)

MobileMon
MobileMon

Reputation: 8651

You can use this

[deviceID removeFromSuperview];
devideID = nil;
deviceID = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(115, 11, 388, 22)];
...

While the accepted answer works, if you don't want to delegate the responsibility to the ViewController of having to create the UITextField then use this

Upvotes: 0

RegularExpression
RegularExpression

Reputation: 3541

I found the following in another post (pertaining to views, generally):

[self.view.subviews makeObjectsPerformSelector: @selector(removeFromSuperview)];

and converted to this:

[cell.contentView.subviews makeObjectsPerformSelector: @selector(removeFromSuperview)];

Works perfectly to resolve problem in this thread.

Upvotes: 0

iDev
iDev

Reputation: 23278

You are adding multiple instances of same textfield on to the cell whenever cellForRowAtIndexPath is called. Create textfield in viewDidLoad and add on to this cell. It should work.

An alternate way is to subclass your UITableViewCell and add this textFiled as a property of that in its init method. Then you can set value as cell.textField.text = @"some value";

If you add this line in cellForRowAtIndexPath,

deviceID = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(115, 11, 388, 22)];

It will get called whenever the table view is reloading and you will lose the references of previous textfields. So you need to make sure that you are creating only one textfield and adding it to tableview cell. This will also make sure that you have only a single textfield created in the cell.

Upvotes: 4

Andrey Chernukha
Andrey Chernukha

Reputation: 21808

What if you try this delegate method:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
   [textField setText:@""];
}

Upvotes: 1

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