UITextField placeholder font color white iOS 5?

Question

I have a problem in a XIB. The color of my placeholder color is default gray in interface builder but when i run the app the color of the text i white, and I'cant see it because the background is white.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Rectangular

Answer 1

You can override drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect as such to manually render the placeholder text in UITextField

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    [[UIColor blueColor] setFill];
    [[self placeholder] drawInRect:rect withFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:16]];
}

Wessels

When you override, does that mean you have to create a subclass of UITextField? Say, for instance, CustomTextField? – Aeronaut

I have this error: <Error>: CGContextSetFillColorWithColor: invalid context 0x0 pls tell me how i can fix it? – Publus

[activeView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()]; – Wessels

Answer 2

The above solution did not work for me, I used the following workaround.

[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITextField class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor darkGrayColor]];

But then I got to know another bug, the above did the job but it also reset the color of all other labels to Default Black. Then I had to sub class the UILabel class and use my class in all other labels in my view.

Hoelscher

Answer 3

Quick fix on the syntax:

[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITextField class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor darkGrayColor]];

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