UITextView background image

Question

How can I set up a background image to UITextView?

Answer 1

Just one clarification, when trying out answer #9 from @oxigen, I found out that this line:

UIImageView *imgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame: textView.frame];

Is relative to the textView.frame. So your x and y values need to be 0,0 if you want it to overlap completely which means you want something like:

UIImageView *imgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:textView.bounds];

Answer 2

You can have an UIImageView containing the background image and the UITextView as siblings, then in Interface Builder move the text view to overlap the image view (or add them both to the same parent view if doing it programmatically). You also need to make sure that text view is not opaque and give it a 0% opacity background.

Answer 3

@durai: Your image has a height limit after which white background will appear if empty background appears after it scrolls down then you can repeat the same image.

This might be helpful:

textView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed: @"Image.png"]];

Answer 4

For tiled background i like this solution

UIImage *patternImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
UIColor* color = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:patternImage];
textView.backgroundColor = color;

Answer 5

[txtView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"]]];

Answer 6

UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc]initWithFrame: window.frame];
textView.text = @"text\n text\n text";
UIImageView *imgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame: textView.frame];
imgView.image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"myImage.jpg"];
[textView addSubview: imgView];
[textView sendSubviewToBack: imgView];
[window addSubview: textView];