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

You can try with this sample code

let  textFld = UITextField();
textFld.frame = CGRectMake(0,0, 200, 30)
textFld.center = self.view.center;
textFld.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:"Test Data for place holder", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blueColor(),NSFontAttributeName :UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 10)!])
self.view.addSubview(textFld)

Answer 2

For swift 4 instead of

NSForegroundColorAttributeName

use

NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor

Answer 3

It's easy to do with a subclass of UITextField.

Add placeholderColor property to easily set the color, and then observer changing of .placeholder to apply the color to it (with use of .attributedPlaceholder property)

var placeholderColor: UIColor = .lightGray

override var placeholder: String? {
    didSet {
        let attributes = [ NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: placeholderColor ]
        attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: placeholder ?? "", attributes: attributes)
    }
}

You do need to set the placeholder text programatically for the color to apply.

Answer 4

#1. set Placeholder textfield color Programmatically

    var myMutableStringTitle = NSMutableAttributedString()
    let Name  = "Enter Title" // PlaceHolderText

    myMutableStringTitle = NSMutableAttributedString(string:Name, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "Georgia", size: 20.0)!]) // Font
    myMutableStringTitle.addAttribute(NSForegroundColorAttributeName, value: UIColor.redColor(), range:NSRange(location:0,length:Name.characters.count))    // Color
    txtTitle.attributedPlaceholder = myMutableStringTitle

OR

txtTitle.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string:"Enter Title", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: yellowColor])

Note : Name is your placeholder of textField.

PlaceHolder TextFiled :

-------------------------------- OR -------------------------------------

#2. set Placeholder textfield color at runtime attribute

1. Set textfield placeHolder text Enter Title

2. Click on identity inspector of textfield property.

3. User Define Runtime Attributes, add color attributes

   Key Path : _placeholderLabel.textColor

   Type : Color

   value : Your Color or RGB value

   PlaceHolder TextFiled :