how to dismiss keyboard iOS on a table view

Question

What is a good way to dismiss this keyboard when the user touches outside of it? I tried the touches began method but this does not work. The textfieldshouldreturn method works okay though. I can't think of any other ways of doing this. Can someone please help me out here I would really appreciate any help. Thanks

import UIKit


var courseCatalog : [String] = Array<String>()


class HomeViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate , UITableViewDelegate{

    @IBOutlet var searchTextField: UITextField!


    override func viewDidLoad() {

        courseCatalog = ["Accounting", "Administration" , "American Studies" , "Anthropology" , "Arabic" , "Art" , "Aerospace Studies" , "American Sign Language" , "Biology" , "Child Development" , "Chemistry" , "Chinese" , "Criminal Justice", "Communication Studies" , "Computer Science", "Computer Engineering"]

        super.viewDidLoad()

        println(PFUser.currentUser())

        println("Home Tab View Controller")

        searchTextField.delegate = self
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {

        return courseCatalog.count

    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

        let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier: "Cell")

        cell.textLabel?.text = courseCatalog[indexPath.row]

        return cell

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {

        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.

    }


    override func touchesBegan(touches: NSSet, withEvent event: UIEvent) {


        self.searchTextField.resignFirstResponder()

    }

    func textFieldShouldReturn(textField: UITextField!) -> Bool {

        searchTextField.resignFirstResponder()
        return true

    }





}

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possible duplicate of [hide keyboard for text field in swift programming language](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24908966/hide-keyboard-for-text-field-in-swift-programming-language) — Almo, Mar 19 '15 at 19:32

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '15 at 19:34

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You should add a tap gesture recognizer to your table view that closes the keyboard when it's fired:

//Somewhere in setup
UITapGestureRecognizer *viewTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(closeKeyboard)];
viewTap.cancelsTouchesInView = FALSE;
[myTableView addGestureRecognizer:viewTap];

//Somewhere else in your class
-(void)closeKeyboard {

    [self.view endEditing:TRUE];
}

answered Mar 19 '15 at 19:34

rebello95

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I added a tap gesture recognizer to close the keyboard but now the user can not tap on any of the contents of the table view – Mbusi Hlatshwayo Mar 20 '15 at 00:04
@MbusiHlatshwayo Did you set `cancelsTouchesInView` to `FALSE`? – rebello95 Mar 20 '15 at 01:13

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '15 at 19:38

If your background is a UIView, you can change it to a UIControl in the identity inspector and send it to an action that resigns the first responder.

Since your background is a UITableView you should add a rightBarButtonItem to your navigationBar like 'Cancel' or 'Done' and send it to a method that resigns first responder*.

*Your first responder is the field the user is typing in.

[textField resignFirstResponder];

Swift:

textField.resignFirstResponder();

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '15 at 19:52

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You can try this code:

func textFieldShouldReturn(textField: UITextField) -> Bool{
    textField.resignFirstResponder()
    return true
}

This will dismiss the keyboard when the 'return' button is pressed on the keyboard.

Hope this can help you.

answered Mar 19 '15 at 19:52

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