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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:45:39+00:00

I’m programmatically including an action button and a compose button on the toolbar with

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I’m programmatically including an action button and a compose button on the toolbar with the following code:

UIBarButtonItem *compose = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:7 target:self action:@selector(userWritesHaiku)];

compose.style=UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;

UIBarButtonItem *action = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:9 target:self action:@selector(userWritesHaiku)];

action.style=UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;

(And then putting them in an array and assigning them to the toolbar.)

But that gives me the following output:

buttons created programmatically

What I want is the following, which I can create with the Interface Builder, but I’m not using the Interface Builder.

buttons created with Interface Builder

How can I get the latter image programmatically?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The item’s style property has a default value of UIBarButtonItemStylePlain. You need to set it to UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered.

    I tried this code in the iOS 5.0 simulator:

    UIBarButtonItem *item = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCompose target:self action:@selector(self)];
//item.style = UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;
self.toolbar.items = [self.toolbar.items arrayByAddingObject:item];

    I got this result:

    plain UIBarButtonItem

    Then I changed it to this code:

    UIBarButtonItem *item = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCompose target:self action:@selector(self)];
item.style = UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;
self.toolbar.items = [self.toolbar.items arrayByAddingObject:item];

    and I got this result:

    bordered UIBarButtonItem

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