Question

I am looking for a simple answer for this problem…

I have a UITextView in which the user can start typing and click on DONE and resign the keyboard.

When the wants to edit it again, I want the cursor (the blinking line) to be at the first position of the textView, not at the end of textView. (act like a placeholder)

I tried setSelectedRange with NSMakeRange(0,0) on textViewDidBeginEditing, but it does not work.

More Info:

It can be seen that.. when the user taps on the textView the cursor comes up at the position where the user taps on the textView.

I want it to always blink at starting position when textViewDidBeginEditing.

Answer 1

So I ended up adding a UILabel over the UITextView which acts as a placeholder for the textView. Tapping on the UILabel would send the action down to the textView and becomeFirstResponder. Once you start typing, make the label hidden.