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Uffo
Uffo

Reputation: 10056

iOS text field doesn't show placeholder text

So I have some basic textfields with a custom background, that is a line at the bottom and the rest of it it's transparent, but now the placeholders don't show anymore.

These are the text fields

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And config

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 3934

Answers (3)

Nicholas H.
Nicholas H.

Reputation: 1311

I had the same problem. Turns out it had nothing to do with me having set borderStyle to UITextBorderStyleNone. It was caused by me subclassing UITextField to add a manually drawn border along the bottom only and failing to call the super implementation in my override of layoutSubviews. Once I had sorted that, my placeholder text was back.

Upvotes: 1

Joseph El Khoury
Joseph El Khoury

Reputation: 516

It's better to do this:

if ([self.textField respondsToSelector:@selector(setAttributedPlaceholder:)]) {
    self.textField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:self.textField.placeholder attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]}];
}

Upvotes: 1

Uffo
Uffo

Reputation: 10056

I have found a solution that works, you need to select the input and set the following on User Defined Runtime Attributes

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Upvotes: 2

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