Clear UITextField Placeholder text on tap

Question

In Xcode4 I\'ve created some placeholder text for a UITextField and I\'d like it to clear when the user taps in the box.

So, in the Attributes Inspector for the text fie

Answer 1

make your ViewController the delegate of the textField and implement those two methods:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    textField.placeholder = nil;
}

- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
    textField.placeholder = @"Your Placeholdertext";
}