How to make the height of the cursor same with the height of text in UITextField?

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I have UITextField with too long cursor(the cursor for "123123" in the following image)

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How to make the height of the cursor same with the height of text?

Your problem may be same as this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20207961/ios-uitextview-linespacing-make-cursor-height-not-same — menq, Mar 02 '17 at 04:27

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '17 at 16:56

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I accidentally stumbled across this question and even though it is a little old I feel compelled to answer it since the accepted answer actually isn't correct.

You can indeed change the height (or width) of the cursor. Just subclass the UITextField and override this method:

- (CGRect)caretRectForPosition:(UITextPosition *)position {
    CGRect rect = [super caretRectForPosition:position];
    rect.size.height = 42;
    return rect;
}

answered Oct 30 '17 at 16:56

pajevic

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hi, i tried your answer and it worked so +1 for you, but when i changed the keyboard (from English(indian) to Japanes(kana) ) , the caret moves up when i enter a single character. **Xcode 10.1 & Swift** – Vatsal Shukla Dec 07 '18 at 04:57
Thank you, it is a great answer! It should be selected as correct. It is far more flexible and reliable solution. in my case, I also needed to change cursor's position according to different conditions. I could achieve it through this method – Artemis Shlesberg May 17 '21 at 18:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '17 at 04:31

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Suppose your UITextField name is uiTextField. To set font size add the code below

_uITextField.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10)

answered Mar 02 '17 at 04:31

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '17 at 04:38

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we can't change the cursor height , but we can do some trick , select your textfield and change your textfield border style as UITextBorderStyleNone

you get the out put as

there after increase the font size of your textfield whatever you want , then you get the output as

answered Mar 02 '17 at 04:38

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Thank you very much! The cursor's height seems to be same with the height of the textField. So I set a constraint on the textfield's height and increase the font size. – jybsuper Mar 02 '17 at 04:59
@Anbu.Karthik i have some problem in another question if you are free so please help me – Jigar Mar 02 '17 at 05:25
@john - sure, . – Anbu.Karthik Mar 02 '17 at 05:28
@Anbu.Karthik check this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41424811/add-blur-effect-on-a-mapbox – Jigar Mar 02 '17 at 05:30

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 02 '21 at 08:42

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in 2021 we have properties

TextFormField(
cursorHeight: 13,
cursorColor: Colors.black)

answered Jun 02 '21 at 08:42

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this is not UIKit / iOS – Leo Dabus Aug 28 '21 at 08:23

How to make the height of the cursor same with the height of text in UITextField?

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