UITextField make text bold?

Question

Quick question, does anyone know how to programatically make the text in the textField bold or italic?

   @property(nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField *textField_TOP_01;

   [textField_TOP_01 setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];
   [textField_TOP_01 setText:@"This text is bold"];

Much appreciated

Gary

score 54 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 29 '17 at 14:26

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You can use the following methods to get a bold or italic system font;

UIFont* boldFont = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:[UIFont systemFontSize]];
UIFont* italicFont = [UIFont italicSystemFontOfSize:[UIFont systemFontSize]];

Then simply set the font that the text field uses;

[textField_TOP_01 setFont:boldFont];

If you want to see more about fonts with the iPhone, you can see a nice screen shot of all of the available fonts here: https://www.cocoanetics.com/2010/02/understanding-uifont/ or you can read about the class which shows you how you can also pull out the 'buttonFontSize' and 'labelFontSize' etc here; https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifont

edited Jun 29 '17 at 14:26

Cœur

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answered Oct 01 '10 at 16:33

John Wordsworth

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how to mix between bold and italics how to save the text with this format in txt file – Ali Apr 17 '11 at 12:10
Depending on what you're after... 1. If you would like something read-only then you could use a UIWebView to display HTML to the user. (http://iphoneincubator.com/blog/windows-views/display-rich-text-using-a-uiwebview). This wouldn't allow for edits though. 2. If you need a 'Pages' like editable view, then I believe that the OmniGroup libraries provide an editable text area which supports formatting. I've never used it however, and I can't find any documentation easily on github. https://github.com/omnigroup/OmniGroup – John Wordsworth Apr 21 '11 at 20:37

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

Attributes like bold and italic can be set by using the appropriate font. See this answer for more details.

UIFont * font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold"
                                size:[UIFont systemFontSize]];
[textField setFont:font];

Alternatively, if you are just looking to create bold and italic versions of the standard iPhone system font, you can use the boldSystemFontOfSize: or italicSystemFontOfSize: methods.

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '12 at 13:20

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If normal font is like,

[UIFont fontWithName:@"Gill Sans" size:16]]

I can make it bold by modifying the line as,

[UIFont fontWithName:@"GillSans-Bold" size:16]]

edited May 23 '12 at 13:20

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answered May 23 '12 at 12:47

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Perfect! This allowed me to use "Light" font which is all about iOS7 haha! – Albert Renshaw Dec 13 '13 at 06:40

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 30 '18 at 07:13

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In swift 3.0 Suppose your UITextField variable name is textField.

textField.font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Medium", size: 17)// for medium

name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold" // for bold

answered Jan 30 '18 at 07:13

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 16:31

There is a property called UIFont

@property(nonatomic, retain) UIFont *font

For creating a UIFont with a bold, I think you can use:

+ (UIFont *)fontWithName:(NSString *)fontName size:(CGFloat)fontSize

UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:[UIFont systemFontSize]];

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