How to style UITextview to like Rounded Rect text field

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I am using a text view as a comment composer   In the properties inspector I can t find anything like a border style property so that I can make use a rounded rect  something like UITextField   So  the question is  How can I style a UITextView like a UITextField with a rounded rect

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One solution is to add a UITextField below the UITextView  make the UITextView background transparent and disable any user interaction on the UITextField  Then in code change the UITextField frame with something like that  self textField frame   CGRectInset self textView frame  0  -2     You will have exactly the same look as a text field   And as suggested by Jon  you should put this piece of code inside  UIViewController viewDidLayoutSubviews  on iOS 5 0

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You can create a Text Field that doesn t accept any events on top of a Text View like this   CGRect frameRect   descriptionTextField frame  frameRect size height   50  descriptionTextField frame   frameRect  descriptionTextView frame   frameRect  descriptionTextField backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   descriptionTextField enabled   NO  descriptionTextView layer cornerRadius   5  descriptionTextView clipsToBounds   YES

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There is a great background image that is identical to the UITextView used for sending text messages in iPhone s Messages app  You ll need Adobe Illustrator to get  amp  modify it  iphone ui vector elements

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Edit  You have to import   import  lt QuartzCore QuartzCore h gt    for using corner radius   Try this it will work for sure  UITextView  txtView     UITextView alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 50  50  300  100    txtView layer cornerRadius   5 0  txtView clipsToBounds   YES    As  Rob figured it out setting the if you want the border color to be similar as UITextField then you need to change the border width to 2 0 and color to gray by adding the following line   textView layer setBorderColor    UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 5  CGColor      textView layer setBorderWidth 2 0

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I don t think that it is possible  but you can do UITableView grouped  with 1 section and 1 empty cell and use it as a container for your UITextView

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For the best effect you have to use a custom  stretchable  background image  This is also how the UITextField s rounded border is drawn

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If you want to keep your controller code clean  you can subclass UITextView like below  and change the class name in the Interface Builder    RoundTextView h   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt   interface RoundTextView   UITextView  end   RoundTextView m   import  RoundTextView h   import  lt QuartzCore QuartzCore h gt   implementation RoundTextView - id  initWithCoder  NSCoder   aDecoder       if  self    super initWithCoder aDecoder              self layer setBorderColor    UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 333  CGColor             self layer setBorderWidth 1 0           self layer cornerRadius   5          self clipsToBounds   YES            return self     end

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There is no implicit style that you have to choose  it involves writing a bit of code using the QuartzCore framework     first  you  import  lt QuartzCore QuartzCore h gt              Here I add a UITextView in code  it will work if it s added in IB too UITextView  textView     UITextView alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 50  220  200  100       To make the border look very close to a UITextField  textView layer setBorderColor    UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 5  CGColor     textView layer setBorderWidth 2 0      The rounded corner part  where you specify your view s corner radius  textView layer cornerRadius   5  textView clipsToBounds   YES    It only works on OS 3 0 and above  but I guess now it s the de facto platform anyway

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You may want to check out my library called DCKit    You d be able to make a rounded corner text view  as well as text field button plain UIView  from the Interface Builder directly     It also has many other useful features  such as text fields with validation  controls with borders  dashed borders  circle and hairline views etc

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How about just   UITextField  textField     UITextField alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 20  20  280  32    textField borderStyle   UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect   self addSubview textField

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Swift 3 Version  After setting up the text view in interface builder     IBOutlet weak var textView  UITextView   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       textView layer cornerRadius   5          textView layer borderColor   UIColor gray withAlphaComponent 0 5  cgColor     textView layer borderWidth   0 5       textView clipsToBounds   true     Swift 2 2 Version   IBOutlet weak var textView  UITextView   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       textView layer cornerRadius   5          textView layer borderColor   UIColor grayColor   colorWithAlphaComponent 0 5  CGColor     textView layer borderWidth   0 5       textView clipsToBounds   true

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I know there are already a lot of answers to this one  but I didn t really find any of them sufficient  at least in Swift    I wanted a solution that provided the same exact border as a UITextField  not an approximated one that looks sort of like it looks right now  but one that looks exactly like it and will always look exactly like it    I needed to use a UITextField to back the UITextView for the background  but didn t want to have to create that separately every time   The solution below is a UITextView that supplies it s own UITextField for the border   This is a trimmed down version of my full solution  which adds  placeholder  support to the UITextView in a similar way  and was posted here  https   stackoverflow com a 36561236 1227119     This class implements a UITextView that has a UITextField behind it  where the     UITextField provides the border     class TextView   UITextView  UITextViewDelegate       var textField   TextField         required init  coder  NSCoder                fatalError  This class doesn t support NSCoding               override init frame  CGRect  textContainer  NSTextContainer                 super init frame  frame  textContainer  textContainer            self delegate   self              Create a background TextField with clear  invisible  text and disabled         self textField borderStyle   UITextBorderStyle RoundedRect          self textField textColor   UIColor clearColor            self textField userInteractionEnabled   false           self addSubview textField           self sendSubviewToBack textField              convenience init                 self init frame  CGRectZero  textContainer  nil             override func layoutSubviews                 super layoutSubviews              Do not scroll the background textView         self textField frame   CGRectMake 0  self contentOffset y  self frame width  self frame height                 UITextViewDelegate - Note  If you replace delegate  your delegate must call this     func scrollViewDidScroll scrollView  UIScrollView                   Do not scroll the background textView         self textField frame   CGRectMake 0  self contentOffset y  self frame width  self frame height

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One way I found to do it without programming is to make the textfield background transparent  then place a Round Rect Button behind it  Make sure to change the button settings to disable it and uncheck the Disable adjusts image checkbox

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In iOS7 the following matches UITextField border perfectly  to my eye at least    textField layer borderColor      UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 5  CGColor   textField layer borderWidth   0 5  textField layer cornerRadius   5  textField clipsToBounds   YES    There is no need to import anything special   Thanks to  uvieere and  hanumanDev whose answers go me almost there

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This is an old question  and I was also searched for this questions answer  luvieeres  answer is 100  correct and later Rob added some code  That is excellent  but I found a third party in another questions answer which seems very helpful to me  I was not only searched for similar look of UITextField over UITextView  I was also searched for multiline support  ChatInputSample satisfied both  Thats why I think this third party might be helpful to others  Also thanks to Timur  he mentioned this open source in here

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Here is my solution   -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad         self textView text   self messagePlaceholderText      self textView layer backgroundColor     UIColor whiteColor  CGColor       self textView layer borderColor      UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 3  CGColor       self textView layer borderWidth   0 5      self textView layer cornerRadius   5 5f      self textView layer masksToBounds   YES      self textView textColor     UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 4      -  void textViewDidBeginEditing  UITextView   textView       if  textView    self tvMessage               Delete placeholder text         if   self textView text isEqualToString self messagePlaceholderText                 self textView text                    self textView textColor    UIColor blackColor                      -  void textViewDidEndEditing  UITextView   textView       if  textView    self tvMessage               Write placeholder text         if  self textView text length    0                self textView text   self messagePlaceholderText              self textView textColor     UIColor grayColor  colorWithAlphaComponent 0 4

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I wanted the real deal  so I add UIImageView as a subview of the UITextView  This matches the native border on a UITextField  including the gradient from top to bottom   textView backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   UIImageView  borderView     UIImageView alloc  initWithFrame  CGRectMake 0  0  textView frame size width  textView frame size height    borderView autoresizingMask   UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight   UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth  UIImage  textFieldImage     UIImage imageNamed   TextField png   resizableImageWithCapInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake 15  8  15  8    borderView image   textFieldImage   textField addSubview  borderView    textField sendSubviewToBack  borderView     These are the images I use

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this code worked well for me        yourTextView layer setBackgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor  CGColor         yourTextView layer setBorderColor    UIColor grayColor  CGColor         yourTextView layer setBorderWidth  1 0        yourTextView layer setCornerRadius 8 0f        yourTextView layer setMasksToBounds YES

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import  lt QuartzCore QuartzCore h gt  -  void viewDidLoad    UITextView  textView     UITextView alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 50  220  200  100      textView layer cornerRadius   5    textView clipsToBounds   YES     textView layer setBackgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor  CGColor       textView layer setBorderColor    UIColor grayColor  CGColor       textView layer setBorderWidth  1 0      textView layer setCornerRadius 8 0f      textView layer setMasksToBounds YES      self view addSubView textview

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One way I found to do it without programming is to make the textfield background transparent  then place a Round Rect Button behind it  Make sure to change the button settings to disable it and uncheck the Disable adjusts image checkbox    Tried the Quartzcore code and found it caused lag on my old 3G  I use for testing   Not a big issue but if you want to be as inclusive as possible for different ios and hardware I recommend Andrew L s answer above - or make your own images and apply accordingly

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