UITextField set placeholder color as dark in iOS

Question

I have tried to set UITextField \"Placeholder\" color as dark.

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Answer 1

As suggested by Apple, subclassing UITextField and overriding - (void)drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect is the way to go:

- (void)drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect { 
    UIColor *colour = [UIColor lightGrayColor]; 
    if ([self.placeholder respondsToSelector:@selector(drawInRect:withAttributes:)]) 
    { // iOS7 and later 
        NSDictionary *attributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: colour, NSFontAttributeName: self.font}; 
        CGRect boundingRect = [self.placeholder boundingRectWithSize:rect.size options:0 attributes:attributes context:nil]; 
        [self.placeholder drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(0, (rect.size.height/2)-boundingRect.size.height/2) withAttributes:attributes]; } 
    else { // iOS 6 
        [colour setFill]; 
        [self.placeholder drawInRect:rect withFont:self.font lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail alignment:self.textAlignment]; 
    } 
 } 

Credit: http://www.brightec.co.uk/blog/how-change-colour-uitextfields-placeholder-text-ios7-and-still-support-ios6