Can I make UITextField invisible?

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I checked out iPhone: How can I make a UITextField invisible but still clickable?, but the OP has something else going on and the answers didn't seem to help me out of my fix.

I have a UITextField in which the user has to enter text. Instead of the standard UITextField graphic, I want to use a lovely graphic that's been designed for that purpose. The user would still need to be able to enter text and see the text s/he's entering, but I need the textfield to be invisible so that the graphic can show from underneath it.

How can I do this? Or is there another way to do what I'm after?

How about setting background color to clear color? `[textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];` Also set the border style as `UITextBorderStyleNone` — iDev, Jan 21 '13 at 22:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:01

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Adding my comment as an answer. You can try this,

[textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

And then set the border style as UITextBorderStyleNone.

answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:01

iDev

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '13 at 22:59

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something like:

yourTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;

should do it

answered Jan 21 '13 at 22:59

Rok Jarc

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:10

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Another solution would be hiding the UITextView itself and just adding a transparent button that will call the keyboard to display.

Otherwise, the other answers should work.

answered Jan 21 '13 at 23:10

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 22 '13 at 00:10

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Easiest option is to do it in interface builder. Choose the first uitext field style with no border and that's it.

answered Jan 22 '13 at 00:10

JSA986

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Can I make UITextField invisible?

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