Question

I have a UITableView that has some cells and I add a UITextField to each of the cells.

I set textField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing.

When I am editing the textField, the clear button and the keyboard both come out. I type some words in the textField, then tap the clear button, the keyboard will be hidden but the text in the textField will not be cleared.

All of the others work well except the clear button.

Answer 1

I had this problem because I had forgotten I was using a UITapGestureRecognizer to catch taps on the table to dismiss the keyboard and it was capturing the tap on the clear button, preventing it from functioning. Add cancelsTouchesInView=NO on the UITapGestureRecognizer to let the touches still take effect and check using CGRectContainsPoint on the tapper method to only end editing and resignFirstResponder only when the tap wasn’t on the current UITextField‘s frame rect. Note that this still isn’t totally perfect since tapping X on an autocorrect might be outside the text field’s frame rect, so maybe checking the cell’s contentView would be better.