Creating a tappable text section inside a UITextView

Question

I have the following problem, I have a textview that says something like this "By tapping the "I agree" button, I certify that I have read and agree to the Online Terms and Conditions"

what I want to do is to add a tap gesture recognizer to the part that says "Online Terms and Conditions" and call a method when the user taps this text section, if the user clicks in any other section of the text nothing should happen.

How can I do this? (I can't post any code due to the NDA I signed) :( I hope I can still be helped.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use attributed string with the tag NSLinkAttributeName set for the range of tappable text. Then in the textView delegate implement

optional func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL:URL, in characterRange: NSRange, interaction: UITextItemInteraction) -> Bool

Note that your text field must be selectable and non-editable for this to work.

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uitextviewdelegate/1649337-textview

Prior to iOS 10 you can use:

optional func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange) -> Bool`

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uitextviewdelegate/1618606-textview

If you need to support both use the @available api - put @available(iOS, deprecated: 10.0) before pre-iOS 10 version and @available(iOS 10.0, *) before the one for iOS 10. That way you will avoid compile-time errors.