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I want to change the width of the textfield that is inside UISearchBar keeping its appearance.

I've tried to subclass UISearchBar and in drawRect check the self.subviews that is a kind of class UITextField and change its width, but didn't work.

I also tried this inside the layoutSubviews method but keep not working.

My objective is to have a UIButton over the right side of UISearchBar, but when I'm writing text, it can't be overlap by the UIButton.

bn.
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David Beleza
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If you really want to use UISearchBar, try the following steps:
1. Set UISearchBar's userInteractionEnabled property to NO
2. Add a UITextField above the search bar
3. Set search bar's text property when the content of UITextField is changed.

It is not a good idea to change the textfield inside the search bar, because when a new version ios comes, the struct of UISearchBar maybe changed and your code may be wrong.

Rufus
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simply create custom search Bar using UItextField and set all properties that you want. I was did it same way, even I was tried same that you did but it didn't work.event UItextField having various event so you can implement your search functionality based on that event.

Dilip Ingole Patil
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