Question

I want to be able to set the color inside a Text Field to be a different color than the default white.

I can make it grey by reducing the Alpha value but i want to use colors other than gray to denote certain conditions. i.e. red for a warning.

I hate asking such a simple question but I did some Google Searches and don’t see anything to give me some insight.

I want to use colors, not an image as that would be more efficient than using images. But if it only works with images then guidance on that would be great.

I know there is a Background image you can set but that is more to make the border a different color. I want the color inside the text field area to be a different color.

If there is a way to do this in code but not in IB, that would be useful for me as well.

Thanks,

Dano

Answer 1

To change the background color in IB, set the Border to other than round rect.

Programmatically:

UITextField *myTextField;
myTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;
myTextField.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];