How to create a multiline UITextfield

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I am developing an application where user has to write some information  For this purpose I need a UITextField which is multi-line  in general UITextField is a single line    As I m Googling I find a answer of using UITextView instead of UITextfield for this purpose

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Ok I did it with some trick    First build a UITextField and increased it s size like this    CGRect frameRect   textField frame          frameRect size height   53          textField frame   frameRect    Then build a UITextView exactly in the same area that u made my UITextField  and deleted its background color  Now it looks like that u have a multiple lines TextField

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If you must have a UITextField with 2 lines of text  one option is to add a UILabel as a subview of the UITextField for the second line of text   I have a UITextField in my app that users often do not realize is editable by tapping  and I wanted to add some small subtitle text that says  Tap to Edit  to the UITextField   CGFloat tapLlblHeight   10  UILabel  tapEditLbl     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 20  textField frame size height - tapLlblHeight - 2  70  tapLlblHeight    tapEditLbl backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   tapEditLbl textColor    UIColor whiteColor   tapEditLbl text     Tap to Edit     textField addSubview tapEditLbl

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Yes  a UITextView is what you re looking for  You ll have to deal with some things differently  like the return key  but you can add text to it  and it will allow you to scroll up and down if there s too much text inside    This link has info about making a screen to enter data   create a data entry screen

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Use textView instead then conform with its delegate  call the textViewDidChange method inside of that method call tableView beginUpdates   and tableView endUpdates   and don t forget to set rowHeight and estimatedRowHeight to UITableView automaticDimension

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There is another option that worked for me   Subclass UITextField and overwrite   -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect   In this method you can for example       NSDictionary  attributes      NSFontAttributeName   self font                                    NSForegroundColorAttributeName   self textColor          self text drawInRect verticalAlignedRect withAttributes attributes     This code will render the text using as many lines as required if the rect has enough space  You could specify any other attribute depending on your needs    Do not use   self defaultTextAttributes   which will force one line text rendering

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Besides from the multiple line behaviour  the main difference between UITextView and UITextField is that the UITextView does not propose a placeholder  To bypass this limitation  you can use a UITextView with a  fake placeholder    See this SO question for details  Placeholder in UITextView

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A supplement to h4xxr s answer in the above  an easier way to adjust the height of the UITextField is to select  square border style in the attribute inspectors- Text Field   By default  the border style of a UITextfield is ellipse     Reference  Answered Brian in here   How to set UITextField height

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UITextField is specifically one-line only   Your Google search is correct  you need to use UITextView instead of UITextField for display and editing of multiline text   In Interface Builder  add a UITextView where you want it and select the  editable  box   It will be multiline by default

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use UITextView instead of UITextField

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This code block is enough  Please don t forget to set delegate in viewDidLoad or by storyboard just before to use the following extension  extension YOUR VIEW CONTROLLER  UITextViewDelegate    func textViewDidBeginEditing    textView  UITextView        if YOUR TEXT VIEW text isEmpty    YOUR TEXT VIEW text     quot YOUR DEFAULT PLACEHOLDER TEXT HERE quot            YOUR TEXT VIEW text   nil         YOUR TEXT VIEW textColor    red    YOUR PREFERED COLOR HERE         func textViewDidEndEditing    textView  UITextView        if YOUR TEXT VIEW text isEmpty           YOUR TEXT VIEW textColor   UIColor gray    YOUR PREFERED PLACEHOLDER COLOR HERE         YOUR TEXT VIEW text     quot YOUR DEFAULT PLACEHOLDER TEXT HERE quot

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You can fake a UITextField using UITextView  The problem you ll have is that you lose the place holder functionality    If you choose to use a UITextView and need the placeholder  do this   In your viewDidLoad set the color and text to placeholders   myTxtView textColor    lightGray myTxtView text    Type your thoughts here       Then make the placeholder disappear when your UITextView is selected   func textViewDidBeginEditing  textView  UITextView        if myTxtView textColor textColor    ph TextColor  amp  amp  myTxtView isFirstResponder             myTxtView text   nil         myTxtView textColor    white           When the user finishes editing  ensure there s a value  If there isn t  add the placeholder again   func textViewDidEndEditing  textView  UITextView        if myTxtView text isEmpty    myTxtView text                 myTxtView textColor    lightGray         myTxtView text    Type your thoughts here               Other features you might need to fake   UITextField s often capitalize every letter  you can add that feature to UITableView   myTxtView autocapitalizationType    words   UITextField s don t usually scroll   myTxtView scrollEnabled   false

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