How to center UITextField text in Swift

Question

I have a UITextField object with the text property set to \"hi\". However these two lines have no affect on where \"hi\" is located

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Answer 1

What you're looking for is the textAlignment property; try this:

myUITextObject.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;

Answer 2

Another way to do it, is by using the storyboard.

In fact there is a Vertical and Horizontal Control that you can use for align your element inside the UITextField. In the case above that align the text to the top left:

Hope it helps,

Answer 3

You would want to write it like this:

myUITextObject.textAlignment = .center

(Edited to change from .Center to .center)