Bordered UITextView

Question

I want to have a thin gray border around a UITextView. I have gone through the Apple documentation but couldn\'t find any property there. Please help.

Answer 1

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

....

// typically inside of the -(void) viewDidLoad method
self.yourUITextView.layer.borderWidth = 5.0f;
self.yourUITextView.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];

Answer 2

Works great, but the color should be a CGColor, not UIColor:

view.layer.borderWidth = 5.0f;
view.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];

Answer 3

you can add border to UITextView from the Storyboard - Identity Inspector - User Defined Runtime Attribute

Answer 4

As of iOS 8 and Xcode 6, I now find the best solution is to subclass UITextView and mark the subclass as an IB_DESIGNABLE, which will allow you to view the border in storyboard.

Header:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

IB_DESIGNABLE

@interface BorderTextView : UITextView

@end

Implementation:

#import "BorderTextView.h"

@implementation BorderTextView

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    self.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
    self.layer.borderColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
    self.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0f;
}

@end

Then just drag out your UITextView in storyboard and set its class to BorderTextView

Answer 5

Just a small addition. If you make the border a bit wider, it will interfere with the left and right side of text. To avoid that, I added the following line:

self.someTextView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0);

Answer 6

Here's the code I used, to add a border around my TextView control named "tbComments" :

self.tbComments.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];
self.tbComments.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
self.tbComments.layer.cornerRadius = 8;

And here's what it looks like:

Easy peasy.