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

Overriding the drawPlaceholderInRect: method to draw our own placeholder text.

- (void)drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    UIColor *colour = [UIColor darkColor];
    
    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];
    }
}

OR

This case, likely crash if the internal variable changes in the future

Programmatically:

  [self.MyTextField setValue:[UIColor blackColor] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

In UIStoryBoard:

OR

EDIT: Playing with UITextFiled delegates. its like a tricky:

-(void)viewDidLoad{
  self.mytxtField.text = @"PlaceholderText";
  self.mytxtField.delegate = self;
   self.mytxtField.textColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];

}

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
           if ([self.mytxtField.text isEqualToString: @"PlaceholderText"]) {
             self.mytxtField.text = @"";
             self.mytxtField.textColor = [UIColor blackColor]; 
        }
    }


-(void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
      if ([self.mytxtField.text length]<1) {
            self.mytxtField.text =@"PlaceholderText";
            self.mytxtField.textColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor]; 

        }