It's Possible to change default selection color in UITextField iOS?

Question

Default selection color is blue as - I required to change it clear color?

I know If I change tint color then that color will be set when I select ant text but my question When I set clear color as tint color then there should be no color displaying for selection of text but It is taking gray color as default.

if It is posiible then How? and please provide source code.

This is what happens when tint color is blue

if i set tintColor = clear color than display gray color.
This happens when tint color is set as clear color, its taking gray color as default that I dont want

textField.tintColor = [UIColor clearColor];

Please help me.
Thanks in advance!!!

Possible duplicate of [Change color of cursor in text field](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190352/change-color-of-cursor-in-text-field) — Larme, Feb 20 '17 at 09:53
@Larme he dont want any color on selection, that's the question — Jitendra Modi, Feb 20 '17 at 09:56
Is this any specific requirement from client? As I am not getting the purpose of making the tint color clear... The resulting UI would be rather confusing. — sweta.me, Feb 20 '17 at 11:01
Yes, it's specific client requirement @sweta.me if possible than provide solution. — Chandresh Kachariya, Feb 20 '17 at 11:04
I don't think it's possible. Tried several combination. None worked. Even if you make the background same as the tint color, gradient difference would be there, — sweta.me, Feb 20 '17 at 11:05

Ali Farhan · Answer 1 · 2017-02-20T10:19:01.547

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Its not possible because if you change the cursor color to clear it will not show you the selected text so you have to pick some color for this. You can use a color wchich is very close to transparent by giving its RGB value.

Use below line of code

 textfield.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:255.0/255.0 green:255.0/255.0 blue:255.0/255.0 alpha:1.0];

It will look like this

edited Feb 20 '17 at 10:19

answered Feb 20 '17 at 10:05

Ali Farhan

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how can i set cursor color? – Chandresh Kachariya Feb 20 '17 at 10:14
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Cursor color is automaticallty set when you change the tint color – Ali Farhan Feb 20 '17 at 10:19
it's not my answer please read my question carefully! and Thanks – Chandresh Kachariya Feb 20 '17 at 10:20
I have one question if your selection color is clear then how you are going to show the selected text ? @ChandreshKachariya – Ali Farhan Feb 20 '17 at 10:23
Your question is right, But i required to set clear color and it's values display in other places. – Chandresh Kachariya Feb 20 '17 at 10:28
Also let me know if you are able to find the solution @ChandreshKachariya – Ali Farhan Feb 20 '17 at 10:38
if possible then started this question with upvote and check daily @Ali Farhan – Chandresh Kachariya Feb 20 '17 at 10:40
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/136141/discussion-between-chandresh-kachariya-and-ali-farhan). – Chandresh Kachariya Feb 20 '17 at 10:42

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '17 at 10:00

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Change tint color of the text field.

answered Feb 20 '17 at 10:00

Anuraj

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There is an option to selecte ur required color. – Anuraj Feb 20 '17 at 10:09

It's Possible to change default selection color in UITextField iOS?

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