Placeholder text misaligned in UITextField of UISearchBar

Question

I'm trying to customize UISearchBar's font through appearance proxy. It works, but somehow, the placeholder text is not centered vertically. I tried to set the vertical alignment property; the placeholder text would get centred but text entered would be slightly below the center line... Is there any way to fix this?

Edit: Code I used to add custom font:

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn: [UISearchBar class], nil]
                                setFont: [UIFont customFontWithSize: 17]];

Answer 1

Whenever this happens to me, it is usually caused by some modification to UIAppearance not blending well with UISearchBar . Look at any previous hacks you may have made and perhaps try commenting them out one at a time.

In my particular case it was actually a modification to NSForegroundColor in a text attribute, so this misalignment may be unrelated to your font change.

Answer 2

You need to set alignment of textField inside the searchBar. Get textField from subviews of UISearch bar and simply set its alignment to center.Try sample code below.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    for (UITextField *txt in _searchbar.subviews) {
        if ([txt isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
            [txt setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
        }
    }
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

here _searchbar is outlet of UISearchBar.

Answer 3

- (void)viewDidLoad
{

    for (UITextField *txt in search.subviews) {
        if ([txt isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
            txt.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-BoldMT" size:17];
            txt.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentFill;
        }
    }

    [super viewDidLoad];

}

Try this code once.