It’s trivial to make hyperlinks clickable in a UITextView. You just set the “detect links” checkbox on the view in IB, and it detects HTTP links and turns them into hyperlinks. However, that still means that what the user sees is the “raw” link. RTF files and HTML both allow you to set up a … Read more
I’m wondering about changing the color of the cursor / caret in a UITextField (And UITextView if its the same answer) in iOS. I’ve seen answers for OSX development, but nothing for iOS. Is this even possible? 16 Answers 16
I am developing an application where user has to write some information. For this purpose I need a UITextField which is multi-line (in general UITextField is a single line). As I’m Googling I find a answer of using UITextView instead of UITextfield for this purpose. 11 Answers 11
After upgrading to Xcode 11.2 from Xcode 11.1 my app crashes: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException’, reason: ‘Could not instantiate class named _UITextLayoutView because no class named _UITextLayoutView was found; the class needs to be defined in source code or linked in from a library (ensure the class is part of the … Read more
How can I add a placeholder in a UITextView, similar to the one you can set for UITextField, in Swift? 44 Answers 44 Updated for Swift 4 UITextView doesn’t inherently have a placeholder property so you’d have to create and manipulate one programmatically using UITextViewDelegate methods. I recommend using either solution #1 or #2 below … Read more
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed answers to this question, including citations and an explanation of why your answer is correct. Answers without enough detail may be edited or deleted. In IB’s library, the introduction tells us that when the return key is pressed, the keyboard for UITextView will disappear. But actually the return … Read more
Is there a way to have multiple lines of text in UILabel like in the UITextView or should I use the second one instead? 26 Answers 26 Set the line break mode to word-wrapping and the number of lines to 0: // Swift textLabel.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping textLabel.numberOfLines = 0 // Objective-C textLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping; textLabel.numberOfLines … Read more
I have a UITextView in my iOS application, which displays a large amount of text. I am then paging this text by using the offset margin parameter of the UITextView. My problem is that the padding of the UITextView is confusing my calculations as it seems to be different depending on the font size and … Read more
Is there a good way to adjust the size of a UITextView to conform to its content? Say for instance I have a UITextView that contains one line of text: “Hello world” I then add another line of text: “Goodbye world” Is there a good way in Cocoa Touch to get the rect that will … Read more
My application uses an UITextView. Now I want the UITextView to have a placeholder similar to the one you can set for an UITextField. How to do this? 62 s 62
