UITextfield inside UITableViewCells - dismiss keyboard

Question

I have a couple of UITextfields in each table cell. By hitting the "Done" button or touching outside the keyboard, the keyboard should be dismissed.

My problem: the textFieldShouldEndEditing method is only called when I tap another textfield and the keyboard won't be dismissed. I think i've implemented the necessary parts (Delegate and protocol methods).

Does anyone know what I'm missing here....?

Here is the code (the relevant part):

class myVC: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate  {...

This is the cell setup...

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
{
    let tcell: UITableViewCell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, reuseIdentifier: "tbCell")

    let textfield: UITextField = UITextField(frame:...

    switch (indexPath.section) {
    case 0: ...
    case 1: 
            textfield.text = section2[indexPath.row]
            tcell.addSubview(textfield)
            textfield.delegate = self
            return tcell

and this the protocol method:

func textFieldShouldEndEditing(textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
        textField.resignFirstResponder()
        print("method is called")
        return true
    }

Thank you!

you can use textfieldshouldReturn delegate method and write in it textfield.resignFirstRsponder and return true — Rajan Maheshwari, Dec 22 '15 at 16:51
You haven't implemented any methods that would dismiss the keyboard, so of course it's not being called. Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5306240/iphone-dismiss-keyboard-when-touching-outside-of-uitextfield — Belle, Dec 22 '15 at 16:53
@Rajan: Thank you, it works! However, i don't understand the difference to textFieldShouldEndEditing (with resignFirstResponder). Obviously this is what people suggests in a lot of answers around here and should have the same result. — Netzer, Dec 23 '15 at 09:34

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 22 '15 at 17:12

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I am giving this answer in Objective-C because I don't use Swift

tableView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeOnDrag;

when you will scroll your tableview, and:

tableView.keyboardDismissMode = UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeInteractive;

when you will touch outside textfield.

edited Dec 22 '15 at 17:12

jcaron

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answered Dec 22 '15 at 17:00

Archit Dhupar

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Abhishek Jain · Answer 2 · 2018-09-18T09:12:27.090

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tableView.keyboardDismissMode = .onDrag

or

tableView.keyboardDismissMode = .interactive

edited Sep 18 '18 at 09:12

answered Oct 23 '17 at 13:44

Abhishek Jain

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '15 at 17:51

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why dont you try textFieldShouldReturn delegate of UITextfield.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return NO;}

answered Dec 22 '15 at 17:51

Sandeep Bhandari

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UITextfield inside UITableViewCells - dismiss keyboard

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