UITextField input text position

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Hello I'm making a custom UITextField like so :

_textField.borderStyle=UITextBorderStyleNone;
_textField.backgroundColor = _color;
_textField.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor]CGColor];
_textField.layer.borderWidth = 1.0f;
_textField.layer.cornerRadius = 8.0f;
_textField.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];

The result I get is (image url) http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4330/questionyd.jpg

Question : How do I move the input text slightly to the right so it doesn't touch the border ? I suppose I must define some .frame property but can't figure which one.

thanks ! Louis

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:33

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You can set the leftView property with an empty UIView and a small frame, set the leftViewMode property to UITextFieldViewModeAlways, so your placeholder view is always used.

UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 5, 5)];
_textField.leftView = view;
_textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
[view release];

edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:33

etolstoy

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:33

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You may try creating your own subclass of UITextField and override the method:

-(CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds

Set your own bounds rather then deal with the default.

edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:33

etolstoy

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answered Apr 19 '11 at 21:38

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UITextField input text position

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