How to change placeHolder text of UItextField programmatically if I have designed textField in XIB

Question

I have to make a custom class to design textField in XIB and reuse it multiple times in my viewController . I want to change each placeholder name programmatically.

Answer 1

Create subclass as:

class CustomTextField: UITextField {

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()

    }

    func placeHolderColor(pColor: UIColor, pText: String) {

        self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: pText,
                                                               attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: pColor])

    }
}

Answer 2

Declare an open variable of type string in your textfield custom class. Access that variable to change a placeholder name where ever implemented.

Answer 3

You can change by following two way

1) yourTextField.placeholder = "some string"

2) yourTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "some string")

Answer 4

If you want to change the placeholder you can use the below code

yourTextField.attributedPlaceholder =
            NSAttributedString(string: "YourText", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white])

Answer 5

try making a custom uitextfield class

@IBDesignable
class CustomTextField: UITextField {

    @IBInspectable var TFPlaceholder: String? {
        willSet {
            self.placeholder = newValue
        }
    }
}

Goodluck!! :)

Answer 6

for swift > 5.0

 class CustomTextField: UITextField {

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()

}

func placeHolderColor(pColor: UIColor, pText: String) {
          self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(pText,
                attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: pColor])
   }
}

Answer 7

yourTextfield.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "yourPlaceholderText")

This works for me.