Change colour of textView placeholder

Question

I am using a material design library for ios but i didn't found any property on how to change it's placeholder colour when there is no data entered. I have to use a standard background and the placeholder is not visible if it's gray

Answer 1

You can use an attributed string for this:

let attrString = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.blueColor()])
myTextField.attributedPlaceholder = attrString

Answer 2

https://github.com/CosmicMind/Material/issues/169

See issue 169 on this. Release 1.34.0 includes this ability.

EDIT

New code in Material library is
textField.placeholderTextColor = MaterialColor.green.base

Answer 3

Version 1.34.5 allows the textField placeholder text color to be set like so:

textField.placeholderTextColor = MaterialColor.grey.base

Answer 4

Use ATKit.

Refer: https://aurvan.github.io/atkit-ios-release/index.html

ATTextView Class: https://aurvan.github.io/atkit-ios-release/helpbook/Classes/ATTextView.html

Code:

import ATKit

@IBOutlet weak var messageTextView :ATTextView!

self.messageTextView.placeholderColor = UIColor(red: 173.0/255.0, green: 216.0/255.0, blue: 230.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)

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