UITextField border color

ios colors uikit uitextfield border
dasha picture dasha · Dec 7, 2009 · Viewed 147.1k times · Source

I have really great wish to set my own color to UITextField border. But so far I could find out how to change the border line style only.

I've used background property to set background color in such way:

self.textField.backgroundColor = textFieldColor;

But I have to change color of UITextField border too. And my question was about how to change the border color.

Answer

Gary picture Gary · Apr 21, 2011

Import QuartzCore framework in you class:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

and for changing the border color use the following code snippet (I'm setting it to redColor),

    textField.layer.cornerRadius=8.0f;
    textField.layer.masksToBounds=YES;
    textField.layer.borderColor=[[UIColor redColor]CGColor];
    textField.layer.borderWidth= 1.0f;

For reverting back to the original layout just set border color to clear color,

    serverField.layer.borderColor=[[UIColor clearColor]CGColor];

in swift code

    textField.layer.borderWidth = 1
    textField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor

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