Question

I have UITextField inside a UITableView. I’ve set the delegate of the text view in the cellForRowAtIndexPath method of my UITableView as follows

cell.textField.delegate = self;

but when I finished editing and press “done” I didn’t get anything in my delegate method as shown below. What could be the reason?

-(void) textFieldDidEndEditing: (UITextField * ) textField {    
NSLog(@"here");

}

Answer 1

The textFieldDidEndEditing: method is called after the text field resigns first responder status. To get the text field to resign first responder status, send it a resignFirstResponder message. A good place to do that is in the text field delegate’s textFieldShouldReturn: method. It would look something like this:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

When the user taps the “Done” key, the textFieldShouldReturn: method will get called, causing the text field to resign first responder status and textFieldDidEndEditing: to be called.