Providing hint in text field in ios 7 as edittext field in android

Question

I am creating a feedback form in an ios7 application and want to place few UITextFields which contain hints in the respective UITextField for name, phone number, email address, etc. I am using xcode 5 and ios7 for programming and creating application without use of storyboard.

The hint property is available in android for edit text field, but I am unable to find any such property in UITextField in ios 7.

ZeMoon · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-10T10:11:52.477

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Make use of the Placeholder text property.

Here's an example:

UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 100, 50)];
textField.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:20];
textField.placeholder = @"Your hint here.";

If you are using a storyboard or XIB, this property can be edited there also.

Also, if you want to use custom attributes for the placeholder, you can use the attributedPlaceholder property:

NSAttributedString *attribString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithText:@"Your hint here." attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:16.0]}];
textField.attributedPlaceholder = attribString;

edited Dec 10 '15 at 10:11

answered Feb 25 '14 at 09:06

ZeMoon

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thanks for reply will check and revert back, but can you let me know whether can I apply a custom font to the placeholder ?? – Niranjan Balkrishna Prajapati Feb 25 '14 at 09:10
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You going to provide an example of this or is this just a lazy answer. – Popeye Feb 25 '14 at 09:11
Is an example required? The property can be edited just using the GUI. – ZeMoon Feb 25 '14 at 09:13
I have included an example now. Was very tiring to write. – ZeMoon Feb 25 '14 at 09:13
@akshag you didn't reply for usage of custom font for placeholder ? – Niranjan Balkrishna Prajapati Feb 25 '14 at 09:15
The placeholder takes over whatever font the UITextField has. You cannot set up a custom font for UITextField. – ZeMoon Feb 25 '14 at 09:18
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If you want to use some other font for your placeholder, you can set the UITextField's font to the desired font and then change it in the UITextField's -textFieldDidBeginEditing: delegate method – ZeMoon Feb 25 '14 at 09:19
@akashg thanks for the solution really appreciate your efforts and Thanks to Mr Popeye for telling akashg to provide example. – Niranjan Balkrishna Prajapati Feb 25 '14 at 09:33
The reason for example is because if they knew how to do it they wouldn't be asking a question. – Popeye Feb 25 '14 at 09:47

Providing *hint* in text field in ios 7 as edittext field in android

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Providing hint in text field in ios 7 as edittext field in android