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I'm making an easy app where I have textFields. When the app starts I have examples in my textfields. I want these text examples to be deleted when users tap on textField. Can anybody help me?

Peter David Carter
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lucca910
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    Instead of setting the `text` property of these fields you should simply set the `placeholder` property. – Rok Jarc May 24 '16 at 17:09

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You can set Placeholder text in UITextField. Whenever, UITextField is tapped placeholder text disappears.

Alternatively, you can use following UITextFieldDelegate method

Objective-C

 - (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
   textField.text = ""
}

Swift

func textFieldDidBeginEditing(textField: UITextField) {
  textField.text = ""
}
Ashish Verma
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    Finally an answer that makes sense. – Rok Jarc May 24 '16 at 17:49
  • There is only one problem here: any text would be cleared in your case (when using the `text` instead of the `placeholder` property) as soon as user begins editing. One should at least compare the content to 'initial' content and clear if (and only if) they are a match. – Rok Jarc May 24 '16 at 18:02
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    It's not clear from question what exactly @lucca910 wants to acheive. Whether he wants to delete text every time like in some cases of Passwords. – Ashish Verma May 24 '16 at 18:16
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Just add this underneath your didMoveToView method in youre SpriteKit Game

override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, with Event event: UIEvent?) {

for touch in touches {
    let location = touch.locationInNode(self)
       if nodeAtPoint(location) = textField {
          textField.removeFromParent()
            }
       }
     }
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I think you are trying to create text field with placeholder.

this link might helps you.

Placeholder in UITextView

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Anilkumar Amrutham
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    Why are you linking to a question about putting a placeholder in a `UITextView`? This question is about `UITextField`. – rmaddy May 24 '16 at 17:18