How Change placeholder text color - iOS

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How to to change the color of the placeholder text I set in my UITextField controls, to make it black?

Above all the answers, from iOS 6, there's a property `NSAttributedString *attributedPlaceholder` e.g. `textField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:title attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:textField.font, NSForegroundColorAttributeName:textField.textColor}];` — Hemang, Oct 08 '14 at 07:01

Vinodh · Answer 1 · 2013-05-17T05:06:02.890

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using KVC

[yourtextfield setValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:120.0/255.0 green:116.0/255.0 blue:115.0/255.0 alpha:1.0] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

you can set your own colour to placeholder

edited May 17 '13 at 05:06

answered May 17 '13 at 04:50

Vinodh

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Has anyone submitted an app to the App Store with this? Seems to me like accessing `_placeholder` might count as a private method... – samvermette Feb 15 '14 at 21:24
@samvermette yes we submitted an app with this code , it will not get into as private method – Vinodh Feb 17 '14 at 06:06
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See http://stackoverflow.com/a/3396065/309046 answer – Satish Nov 25 '14 at 08:09
i submitted an app with such code many times. Its clear, i did not have any problem – Yucel Bayram Aug 11 '15 at 12:54
This will work and is probably harmless, but there is already a mechanism to do this without calling a private getter. Why not just do it the "right" way referenced by @satish? – GnarlyDog Nov 17 '15 at 18:30

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '13 at 05:51

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This is a best way to change your placeholder color via KVO...

[txtEmailAddress setValue:[UIColor blackColor] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

I hope it helps you change placeholder color. Thanks

answered May 17 '13 at 05:51

chandan

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Are you using this in production? I mean to access a private property. – Geri Borbás Mar 23 '14 at 18:22
it worked nicely. Thanks – MD Singh Jan 14 '16 at 13:06

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited May 17 '13 at 05:45

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

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

}

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answered May 17 '13 at 04:36

Pradeesh Stanislavose

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Xcoder · Answer 4 · 2013-05-17T06:54:39.120

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You will have to subclass the UITextField class and override the following method.

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
     [[UIColor blackColor] setFill];

    [[self placeholder] drawInRect:rect withFont:[UIFont italicSystemFontOfSize:17] lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeCharacterWrap alignment:UITextAlignmentLeft];

}

edited May 17 '13 at 06:54

answered May 17 '13 at 04:39

Xcoder

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 17 '13 at 04:39

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You can use this to change the placeholder text color.

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

answered May 17 '13 at 04:39

Ahmed Z.

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 17 '13 at 04:39

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Make use of the following code. which will help you.

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

answered May 17 '13 at 04:39

Vinayak Kini

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