How to exit from the search on clicking on Cancel button?

Question

I have a search bar with cancel button. But when I click on Cancel button it doesn\'t close the search bar. How can I make that on click on Cancel it will return search bar to t

Answer 1

You need to implement the UISearchBarDelegate.

The UISearchBarDelegate protocol defines the optional methods you implement to make a UISearchBar control functional. A UISearchBar object provides the user interface for a search field on a bar, but it’s the application’s responsibility to implement the actions when buttons are tapped. At a minimum, the delegate needs to perform the actual search when text is entered in the textField. Read this

In Objective C

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {

     [self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES];

}

In Swift :

func searchBarCancelButtonClicked(searchBar: UISearchBar) {

    self.searchDisplayController.setActive(false, animated: true)
}

Answer 2

Try this:

searchController.active = false

Answer 3

Swift 3

func searchBarShouldBeginEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) -> Bool {
    searchBar.showsCancelButton = true
    return true
}

func searchBarTextDidEndEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    self.searchBar.endEditing(true)
    searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
}

func searchBarSearchButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
}

func searchBarCancelButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    self.searchBar.endEditing(true)
    searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
    searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
}

The Cancel button appears only when the user start entering characters in the field.

Answer 4

Try. It works fine.

class MyViewController: UIViewController, UISearchBarDelegate {

    func searchBarTextDidBeginEditing(_searchBar: UISearchBar) {
        searchBar.setShowsCancelButton(true, animated: true)
        //write other necessary statements
    }

    func searchBarCancelButtonClicked(_searchBar: UISearchBar) {
        searchBar.text = nil
        searchBar.setShowsCancelButton(false, animated: true)

        // Remove focus from the search bar.
        searchBar.endEditing(true) 
    }
}