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Azabella
Azabella

Reputation: 847

Swift Dismiss UITextView Keyboard

I am having trouble dismissing the keyboard of a text view in swift.

I was able to dismiss a textfield with the following

    @IBAction func DismissKeyboard(sender: AnyObject) 
    {
         self.resignFirstResponder()
    }

But I'm not sure how I go about it with a text view

Upvotes: 8

Views: 10592

Answers (4)

John Pitts
John Pitts

Reputation: 981

This is a much better more-intuitive (for your user) solution for dismissing soft keyboard. The problem with the "\n" solution is the user cannot insert line-breaks in the textView-- as hitting the return/done button on the keyboard will dismiss the keyboard before the line break occurs. The method below lets you keep that functionality while teaching the user that just tapping outside text-entry fields is a standard way of dismissing keyboards. 

// MARK: - dismiss keyboard when user taps outside of text boxes

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    configureTapGesture()
}

private func configureTapGesture() {
    let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(WriteJournalEntryViewController.handleTap))
    view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
}

@objc func handleTap() {
    view.endEditing(true)
}

(assumes this code is inside a UIViewController custom subclass named "WriteJournalEntryViewController).

view = your entire view in the UIViewController, so it works for more than just your textView object. endEditing = a method for UIView class, you can read its documentation.

Upvotes: 0

Hardik Thakkar
Hardik Thakkar

Reputation: 15991

swift 3

func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {
    if text == "\n" {
        textView.resignFirstResponder()
        return false
    }
    return true
}

Upvotes: 2

rakeshbs
rakeshbs

Reputation: 24572

You have to set the textview.delegate to self and use the shouldChangeTextInRange function to resign on pressing return.

func textView(textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextInRange range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {
    if text == "\n"  // Recognizes enter key in keyboard
    {
        textView.resignFirstResponder()
        return false
    }
    return true
}

Upvotes: 24

Christian
Christian

Reputation: 22343

just add the UITextView as an IBOutlet and use the same function:

@IBAction func DismissKeyboard(sender: AnyObject) {
    yourtextView.resignFirstResponder()
}

Upvotes: 0

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