I needed UITextView where user can enter text in multiple color at the time of inserting. For example if he enter XYZ, then color will be red, if he enter ABC then it must be blue.
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I needed UITextView where user can enter text in multiple color at the time of inserting. For example if he enter XYZ, then color will be red, if he enter ABC then it must be blue.
This answer was given prior the release of iOS 6 and the support of NSAttributedString in UITextViews.
Sorry this is not possible a UITextView is plain text only. You can only set text and font attributes globally applying to the whole text.
Have a look at UITextView with Syntax Highlighting, it’s related to your situation. The first answer gives you a good overview and some suggestions how to solve your problem.