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iOS

Posted by Jordan Winkelman
Jordan Winkelman
9,434 Points

style iOS textfield borders

how can I style iOS textfield borders to be a specific color and width and have a transparent background

1 Answer

Kai Oelfke
Kai Oelfke
1,378 Points
Kai Oelfke
Kai Oelfke
1,378 Points

Hi,

you can use the CALayer property that is inherited from UIView. With that you can style your UITextField in many ways. You can also consider subclassing UITextField, if you need this TextField at many places.

Some Playground code in Swift:

import UIKit
import QuartzCore

let textField = UITextField(frame: CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 200.0, 44.0))
textField.text = "Test"
textField.layer.cornerRadius = 8.0
textField.layer.masksToBounds = true
textField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blueColor().CGColor
textField.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
textField

let view = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 250, 100))
view.addSubview(textField)
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()

view