Add bottom line to view in SwiftUI / Swift / Objective-C / Xamarin

Question

I would like to keep the border at the bottom part only in UITextField. But I don\'t know how we can keep it on the bottom side.

Can you please advise m

Answer 1

What I did was to create an extension to UITextField and added a Designer editable property. Setting this property to any color would change the border (bottom) to that color (setting other borders to none).

Since this also requires to change the place holder text color, I also added that to the extension.

    extension UITextField {

    @IBInspectable var placeHolderColor: UIColor? {
        get {
            return self.placeHolderColor
        }
        set {
            self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:self.placeholder != nil ? self.placeholder! : "", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: newValue!])
        }
    }


    @IBInspectable var bottomBorderColor: UIColor? {
        get {
            return self.bottomBorderColor
        }
        set {
            self.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.None;
            let border = CALayer()
            let width = CGFloat(0.5)
            border.borderColor = newValue?.CGColor
            border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: self.frame.size.height - width,   width:  self.frame.size.width, height: self.frame.size.height)

            border.borderWidth = width
            self.layer.addSublayer(border)
            self.layer.masksToBounds = true

        }
    }
}

Answer 2

In SwiftUI, The simplest implementation would be,

struct MyTextField: View {
  var myPlaceHolder: String
  @Binding var text: String

  var underColor: Color
  var height: CGFloat

  var body: some View {
    VStack {
        TextField(self.myPlaceHolder, text: $text)
        .padding(.horizontal, 24)
        .font(.title)

        Rectangle().frame(height: self.height)
            .padding(.horizontal, 24).foregroundColor(self.underColor)
    }
  }
}

Usage:

MyTextField(myPlaceHolder: "PlaceHolder", text: self.$text, underColor: .red, height: 3)

Answer 3

Please have a look at the below code sample;

Swift 4:

@IBDesignable class DesignableUITextField: UITextField {

    let border = CALayer()

    @IBInspectable var borderColor: UIColor? {
        didSet {
            setup()
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var borderWidth: CGFloat = 0.5 {
        didSet {
            setup()
        }
    }

    func setup() {
        border.borderColor = self.borderColor?.cgColor

        border.borderWidth = borderWidth
        self.layer.addSublayer(border)
        self.layer.masksToBounds = true
    }

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: self.frame.size.height - borderWidth, width:  self.frame.size.width, height: self.frame.size.height)
    }
 }

Answer 4

Updated Code:

Swift 5.0

extension UITextField {
  func addUnderline() { 
   let layer = CALayer()
   layer.backgroundColor = #colorLiteral(red: 0.6666666865, green: 0.6666666865, blue: 0.6666666865, alpha: 1)
   layer.frame = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: self.frame.size.height - 1.0, width: self.frame.size.width, height: 1.0)
   self.clipsToBounds = true
   self.layer.addSublayer(layer)
   self.setNeedsDisplay()} }

Now call this func in viewDidLayoutSubviews()

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    textField.addUnderline()
}

NOTE: This method will only work in viewDidLayoutSubviews()

Answer 5

let border = CALayer()
     let lineWidth = CGFloat(0.3)
     border.borderColor = UIColor.lightGray.cgColor
     border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: emailTextField.frame.size.height - lineWidth, width:  emailTextField.frame.size.width, height: emailTextField.frame.size.height)
     border.borderWidth = lineWidth
     emailTextField.layer.addSublayer(border)
     emailTextField.layer.masksToBounds = true

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Answer 6

** Here myTF is outlet for MT TEXT FIELD **

        let border = CALayer()
        let width = CGFloat(2.0)
        border.borderColor = UIColor.darkGray.cgColor
        border.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: self.myTF.frame.size.height - width, width:  self.myTF.frame.size.width, height: self.myTF.frame.size.height)

        border.borderWidth = width
        self.myTF.layer.addSublayer(border)
        self.myTF.layer.masksToBounds = true