UIButton title disappears

Question

I have a ViewController with an UIButton inside. When I clicked, the text on the button disappeared. I add all the setTitle for all states, but it continues disappearing. An

Answer 1

With attributed text, make sure button Type = Custom (not System) in your storboard/xib.

Answer 2

As Jack says, it's the "selected" state of the button that has got the same color of the background. You can change that color also in the Storyboard:

• select the button
• in Attributes Inspector -> State Config -> select "highlighted"
• select the correct "text color"

Answer 3

Well it's hard to say for sure, but is the text not visible because the color is the same? I see you set the text for all states but you may want to set the color for all states as well.

[commit setTextColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];

Answer 4

I guess you need to use [self.commit setTitle: NSLocal..., actually use self.commit overall for assignments (when you use @property (nonatomic, retain) or strong with ARC). I use @synthesize commit = _commit; and then only _commit for all the rest of the module.

Answer 5

I noticed a peculiar thing. If I set the title using

  bttn.titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor purpleColor];

Then as soon as I click the button, the title disappears. But, if I use the following method :

[bttn setTitleColor:[UIColor purpleColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Then everything is working correctly.