UItextField with Multiple lines

Question

I am trying to make a form and the requirement is to have a UItextfield with multiple lines which means, when a specific number of characters are entered in one line the blip moves to next line also on hitting enter it should enter the next line as well.

Currently, I am working with Xcode 9.4 but it offers a single line text field.

`UITextField` doesn't support multiple lines. You need to use `UITextView` and handle the character limits in `textViewShouldChangeCharacters`. — Rakesha Shastri, Oct 22 '18 at 10:34
Possible duplicate of [How to create a multiline UITextfield?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1345561/how-to-create-a-multiline-uitextfield) — ielyamani, Oct 22 '18 at 11:25
you have to use UITextView. If you wanna have textfield like border you can use a UITextField behind transparent UITextView and set height constraints to match UITextView. You can use UITextViewDelegate for your text limitations. — RJE, Oct 22 '18 at 13:30

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '19 at 21:14

I used UITextView with this code:

lazy var commentTextView: UITextView = {
    // Create a TextView.
    let textView: UITextView = UITextView()

    // Round the corners.
    textView.layer.masksToBounds = true

    // Set the size of the roundness.
    textView.layer.cornerRadius = 20.0

    // Set the thickness of the border.
    textView.layer.borderWidth = 1

    // Set the border color to black.
    textView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.systemGray.cgColor

    // Set the font.
    textView.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16.0)

    // Set font color.
    textView.textColor = UIColor.black

    // Set left justified.
    textView.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.left

    // Automatically detect links, dates, etc. and convert them to links.
    textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypes.all

    // Set shadow darkness.
    textView.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5

    // Make text uneditable.
    textView.isEditable = true

    return textView
}()

and this is the result

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 10:35

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You should use UITextView for multiline string or there is third party library which you can use. MultilineTextField

answered Oct 22 '18 at 10:35

Sanoj Kashyap

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How would a textView accept user input like a textfield does – Mayank Wadhwa Oct 22 '18 at 10:38
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set `isEditable` to `true` – dirkgroten Oct 22 '18 at 10:50
@dirkgroten thanks for responding, I was about to respond. – Sanoj Kashyap Oct 22 '18 at 10:56
Thanks, dirkgroten and Sandy it solved the issue instead I have used MultilineTextField library with classes and support files as I was unable to impart action to the textView. – Mayank Wadhwa Oct 23 '18 at 05:51

UItextField with Multiple lines

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