How can I programmatically change UIFont of UISearchBar or UITableViewHeader?

Question

I have a UITableView to which I add programmatically a UISearchController as a header. Since I'm adding it programmatically, I can't change the font from the storyboard. I need to change the UISearchBar font to match the font of the rest of the app. I would need to either change the font of a UISearchBar or of the whole tableViewHeader

I saw that there's a similar question with an answer in objective-c, however I'm developing my app in Swift and I tried to convert the answer on the other question to the following code but it still won't work :

let lightFont = UIFont(name: "GothamRounded-Light", size: 15)

        for subview in searchController.searchBar.subviews {
            if subview is UITextField{

                (subview as! UITextField).font = lightFont

            }

        }

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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From this question

You'll need to loop through it's subviews to find the UITextField (not accessible by property)

for subview in search.subviews {
   if subview is UITextField {
       (subview as! UITextField).font = UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 24.0)
   }
}

Then you can set it's font.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 01 '16 at 18:41

brimstone

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Thanks, that looks right to be but when I run it, the font it's not changing. I updated my question with the code I'm using! – Giulio Colleluori May 01 '16 at 19:35
I think the problem is that it's not finding the subviews that are UITextField. Do you have any idea why could that be happening? – Giulio Colleluori May 01 '16 at 19:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '17 at 02:54

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Try this:

let textFieldInSearchBar = searchBar.value(forKey: "searchField") as? UITextField
textFieldInSearchBar?.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10)

answered Dec 06 '17 at 02:54

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 11 '19 at 03:41

Add below code in viewDidLoad()

let textFieldInsideUISearchBar = searchBar.value(forKey: "searchField") as? UITextField

let placeholderLabel = textFieldInsideUISearchBar?.value(forKey: "placeholderLabel") as? UILabel

placeholderLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "Avenir Next", size: 13.0) //this will set custom font to placeholder font

textFieldInsideUISearchBar?.font = placeholderLabel?.font //this will set custom font to text font

This will set a custom font to both the placeholder and text in the UISearchBar.

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited May 02 '16 at 02:53

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if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
    UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).textColor = UIColor.blueColor()
    UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([UISearchBar.self]).font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(17)
}

edited May 02 '16 at 02:53

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answered May 01 '16 at 18:49

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Can you explain what's happening here, and address why you feel this is a good answer? – Ro Yo Mi May 02 '16 at 02:06

How can I programmatically change UIFont of UISearchBar or UITableViewHeader?

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