Place UITextView placeholder/text at top-left corner

Question

The text inside the UITextView sits in the middle like so:

But I would like to place at the top left, rather than hovering somewhere in the middle. Not sure why it happens.

tried using

textView.layer.sublayerTransform = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(x, y, z)

But it didn't change anything

Edit: The actual margin appears because of the navbar at the top. I guess it's just like the problem that occurs with a tableview when theres a 64 pixel margin. How can I remove the margin?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20425281/padding-placeholder-text-ios — Sachin Vas, Oct 04 '16 at 09:15
see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26835944/uitextview-text-content-doesnt-start-from-the-top — Anbu.Karthik, Oct 04 '16 at 09:17
just try to add blank label above textview in viewcontroller hierarchy @luke — Bhavin Bhadani, Oct 04 '16 at 09:20
Use one external library that is SZTextView simple give a class to your TextView and Your Storyboard Automatically Update and You can Put directly placeholder to Your TextView . — Himanshu Moradiya, Oct 04 '16 at 09:26
https://github.com/glaszig/SZTextView/tree/master/Classes download this 2 File and put it in your project and give a class to your textview — Himanshu Moradiya, Oct 04 '16 at 09:27
@luke the views are still from objC, what ever is written in Objective-C should be available for swift as well. Only the syntax changes. — Sachin Vas, Oct 04 '16 at 09:38
@RajanMaheshwari No, you have to make your own placeholder for uitextview. If you're interested see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27652227/text-view-placeholder-swift — luke, Oct 04 '16 at 10:12
@luke Yeah thats ok. but still the text in UITextView is always at top left no matter what size is by default — Rajan Maheshwari, Oct 04 '16 at 10:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 04 '16 at 09:29

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Use :

youtextView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-7.0,0.0,0,0.0);

If you're having issues with iOS7 or above, try using...

[yourTextView setContentOffset: CGPointMake(x,y) animated:BOOL];

edited Oct 04 '16 at 09:29

Kampai

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answered Oct 04 '16 at 09:24

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '16 at 09:38

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Fixed: setup the textview inside viewWillLayoutSubviews rather than viewDidLoad

answered Oct 04 '16 at 09:38

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Place UITextView placeholder/text at top-left corner

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