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

For iOS8, you can take advantage of @IBDesignable & @IBInspectable.

Here is a UITextField subclass in Swift which lets you set the placeholder color in Interface Builder and see the result instantly:

@IBDesignable class EDTextField: UITextField {
    @IBInspectable var placeholderColor: UIColor = UIColor.whiteColor() {
        didSet {
            if let placeholder = self.placeholder {
                let attributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: placeholderColor]
                attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: placeholder, attributes: attributes)
            }
        }
    }
}