How can I highlight portion of text inside a UITextField?

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Let say I have a text like this "By signing up I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy policy of Rue.Du.8 " inside a UITextField , I want to make the whole color Grey except "Terms of use" as white color . Is it possible to achieve into a UITextField?

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Thanks in advance ...

see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27728466/use-multiple-font-colors-in-a-single-label-swift — Anbu.Karthik, Aug 13 '16 at 09:31
I would use a text view so you can make the terms of use and privacy links work. Text fields don't have that functionality. — Dan Levy, Aug 13 '16 at 11:53

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 23 '17 at 16:13

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You can do this using the attributedPlaceholder property, first create an AttributedString, like this.

var str = "By signing up I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy policy of Rue.Du.8"
var attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: str)
attributedString.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.grayColor(), range: (str as NSString).rangeOfString(str))
attributedString.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.whiteColor(), range: (str as NSString).rangeOfString("Terms of use"))
self.textField.attributedPlaceholder = attributedString

edited Dec 23 '17 at 16:13

knightofcydonia

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answered Aug 13 '16 at 09:25

Nirav D

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sorry :p , new user here :( – Arafin Russell Aug 14 '16 at 05:56
Then its Ok :), Welcome on `SO` :) – Nirav D Aug 14 '16 at 06:47

How can I highlight portion of text inside a UITextField?

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