UITextField, set placeholder after text in ios

Question

I need to keep the placeholder after the text, when click on the text box i need to clear only the placeholder and able to type characters.

In this Marissa is the name text and (First Name) is placeholder. Once i start editing placeholder need to clear and start editing complete text.

How can i achieve that?

Answer 1

I have found some similar custom textfield in the below URL. If you find this suitable, you can use it.

TUTORIAL / SOURCE

Answer 2

Step 1: Make the text filed attributed form xib and set the "Marisa (First Name)" and change the color for the (First Name) as grey color .

Step 2: And in the Textfiled DidBiginEditing method change the textField.text to "Marisa".

Answer 3

Please refer below code.

Just copy-paste below code in viewdidload()

textfield.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Yourtext%@",Placehodertext] attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color}];

Assign Delegate of UITextfield to self .

textfield.delegate =  self


-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
   textfield.text = @"Yourtext"
   return YES;
}

Answer 4

You can not set place holder along with the text in a textfield. But there is one alternate for this. Textfields has something called left view which you can make readOnly view. Try this :

UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 30, 30)];
UILabel *textLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:paddingView.bounds];
textLabel.text = @"Marissa";
[paddingView addSubView:textLabel]; 
                textField.leftView = paddingView;
                textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

Answer 5

This could be achieved in several ways:

1. Use the attributedText property of UITextField instance to apply a styling for different parts of the text. Here you need to properly define the property each time a user has changed the input by using delegate methods or by observing UIControl Control Events .

2. If the structure of the text input is fixed and predefined you could use a batch of fields to imitate a more complex/smart field. Here, for example, you need to put two fields beside. One for the last name, second for the first name. Or you can use a combination of UILabel and UITextField if one the part is not editable. Such an approach allows you to configure a separate part of a complex field as you want: different placeholders, fonts, keyboard styles, etc.