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pradeep
pradeep

Reputation: 3095

How do you change the color of text in a UITextView?

How do you change the color of text in a UITextView?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 15221

Answers (3)

icywire
icywire

Reputation: 175

I spot that setting

_textView.selectable = true;

solves that strange issue.

Upvotes: 6

Olie
Olie

Reputation: 24685

In the end, setTextColor: is the answer, there's an important detail missing from the earlier answers: To get this to work in iOS 8, I had to set the color =after= I set the text.

Hence,

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    _myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    _myTextView.text   = @"yadda yadda yadda...";

    // etc., snip

Did NOT work, while

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    _myTextView.text   = @"yadda yadda yadda...";
    _myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    // etc., snip

DID work. This strikes me as a bug in iOS 8, which I will write up.

Upvotes: 16

Eiko
Eiko

Reputation: 25632

yourTextView.textColor = [UIColor redColor];

Looking up UITextView in the documentation gives this immediately. ;-)

Upvotes: 21

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