How to change UITextfield placeholder color and fontsize using swift 2.0?

Question

How to change UITextfield placeholder & fontsize in SWIFT 2.0?

Answer 1

open your identity inspector by selecting text field and then put " placeholderLabel.textColor " in key path by pressing + button . Give the type " Color " and in value select desired RGB color.

Answer 2

Updated for Swift 3

If you want to change the UITextField Placeholder color for Swift 3, use the following lines of code:

let yourTextFieldName = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 180, height: 21))
yourTextFieldName.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder text", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white])

Answer 3

For swift 5.0 use NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor instead of NSForegroundColorAttributeName

So, do it like so

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder text", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white])

Answer 4

Placeholder for textfield Objective C

NSString* str = @"Placeholder text...";                                    
NSRange range1 = [str rangeOfString:@"Placeholder text..."];


NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:str];
[attributedText setAttributes:@{
                                NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:customFont_NotoSans_Regular size:13.0]
                                }
                        range:range1];

[attributedText addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[UIColor whiteColor] range:range1];

txtFld.font = [UIFont fontWithName:customFont_NotoSans_Regular size:13.0];
txtFld.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
txtFld.attributedPlaceholder = attributedText;

Answer 5

set Textfield placeholder

let leftBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem.init(image: UIImage(named:"ic_nav-bar_back.png"), landscapeImagePhone: nil, style: .plain, target: viewController, action: #selector(viewController.buttonClick(_:)))
        leftBarButtonItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: -15, bottom: 0, right: 0)
        leftBarButtonItem.tintColor = UIColor(hex: 0xED6E19)
        viewController.navigationItem.setLeftBarButton(leftBarButtonItem, animated: true)

Answer 6

A simple solution is override placeholder property in an UITextField extension. It will update color of placeholder whole project. You don't need to update your code in many places.

extension UITextField {
  var placeholder: String? {
      get {
          attributedPlaceholder?.string
      }

      set {
          guard let newValue = newValue else {
              attributedPlaceholder = nil
              return
          }

          let attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [.foregroundColor: Color.textFieldPlaceholder.color]

          let attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: newValue, attributes: attributes)

          attributedPlaceholder = attributedText
      }
  }
}