Add padding to uitextfield using appearance

Question

I don't want to subclass the UITextField class just to get text padding.

I want to do it using the appearance proxy.

I tried this:

UIView *padding = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 5, 2)];
[[UITextField appearance] setLeftView:padding];
[[UITextField appearance] setLeftViewMode:UITextFieldViewModeAlways];

unfortunately, if i put this code in my app delegate, any view controller that has a uitextfield in it, fails to load the view

how can I add padding to the textfield without subclassing it ?

this answer solves my question http://stackoverflow.com/a/15558652/2136812 — Lena Bru, Oct 01 '14 at 08:45

iOSdev · Answer 1 · 2014-09-30T13:22:21.720

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Can you try these..

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    int margin = 10;
    CGRect inset = CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + bounds.size.width/2, bounds.origin.y, bounds.size.width/2 - margin, bounds.size.height);
    return inset;
}

- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    int margin = 10;
    CGRect inset = CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + bounds.size.width/2, bounds.origin.y, bounds.size.width/2 - margin, bounds.size.height);
    return inset;
}

(Or)

do like this

// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.

 UIView *paddingTxtfieldView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 20, 42)];// what ever you want 
 txtfield.leftView = paddingTxtfieldView;
 txtfield.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
 txtfield.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyNext;// if you want to go next textfiled write this otherwise "UIReturnKeyDone"

edited Sep 30 '14 at 13:22

answered Sep 30 '14 at 13:15

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I do not wish to subclass uitextfield... in order to write the above methods i need to subclass it – Lena Bru Sep 30 '14 at 13:18
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because it is an uneeded class just for a simple padding feature – Lena Bru Sep 30 '14 at 13:22
see for more information here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19371018/uitextfield-leftview-rightview-padding-on-ios7 – iOSdev Sep 30 '14 at 13:23
if the above answer helps u upvote the answer and mark it as correct answer – iOSdev Sep 30 '14 at 13:26

Add padding to uitextfield using appearance

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