devxoul / uitextview-placeholder

A missing placeholder for UITextView

UITextView+Placeholder

A missing placeholder for UITextView.

Installation

Use CocoaPods.

pod 'UITextView+Placeholder'

Usage

• Import Dynamic Framework:

  e.g. If you're using CocoaPods with use_frameworks! flag.

  @import UITextView_Placeholder;

• Import Static Library:

  #import <UITextView+Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h>

Then create UITextView and set placeholder.

• Implement Objective-C:

  UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc] init];
  textView.placeholder = @"How are you?";
  textView.placeholderColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor]; // optional
  textView.attributedPlaceholder = ... // NSAttributedString (optional)

• Implement Swift:

  let textView = UITextView()
  textView.placeholder = "How are you?"
  textView.placeholderColor = UIColor.lightGray // optional
  textView.attributedPlaceholder = ... // NSAttributedString (optional)

Congratulations! You're done. 🎉

License

UITextView+Placeholder is under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.

uitextview-placeholder's Issues

TextView frame의 Center에 맞게 고쳐주세요

입력시 textview 첫째줄 위치에 placeholder가 위치하는데

textview 높이가 클 시에 가운데 에 맞춰서 placeholder 기능이 되도록 수정해주세요

Carthage support.

add the UITextView-Placeholder category to my Project cause crash

I add the category to my project, when i dismiss a viewcontroller with a UITextView, there is a crash. i didn't even import the header file

Padding

I'm using this in a custom cell and would like to have the placeholder text have a x padding of 16. Any ways to get this done?

Thanks

import in a Swift file ?

I want to use UITextView-Placeholder, I've installed it with Cocoapods but now I'm wondering how I should import it in order to use it in my Swift file. Thanks!

Crash when use Sougou Input method

2016-01-08 16:43:46.797 MyAPP[14249:60b] UMLOG: error: session_id=D24909DC00345158A3E9FC348CA53AAC, context=Only run on the main thread!
(null)
(
0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001884bef6c + 160
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00000001949c81fc objc_exception_throw + 60
2 CoreFoundation 0x00000001884bee10 + 0
3 Foundation 0x0000000188ff6e20 + 88
4 UIFoundation 0x00000001915dc654 + 416
5 UIFoundation 0x00000001915dc318 + 1752
6 UIFoundation 0x000000019160ac2c + 240
7 UIFoundation 0x000000019160e100 + 616
8 UIFoundation 0x000000019160e168 + 36
9 UIFoundation 0x0000000191632a64 + 176
10 UIFoundation 0x000000019163209c + 100
11 UIKit 0x000000018b536a48 + 252
12 UIKit 0x000000018b53692c + 164
13 MyAPP 0x00000001006dfe7c -[UITextView(Placeholder) placeholderLabel] + 168
14 MyAPP 0x00000001006e0228 -[UITextView(Placeholder) placeholder] + 36
15 SogouInputIPhone.dylib 0x0000000102036ea0 APPLE_UIKeyboardImpl_getInputTextField_Placeholder + 136
16 SogouInputIPhone.dylib 0x0000000101e0fb94 _ZN17SogouIMENameSpace13t_quantifiers20CheckShowQuantifiersEiNS_17e_QuantifiersTypeENS_9InputTypeEPti + 22008
17 SogouInputIPhone.dylib 0x0000000101e0fdd0 _ZN17SogouIMENameSpace13t_quantifiers20CheckShowQuantifiersEiNS_17e_QuantifiersTypeENS_9InputTypeEPti + 22580
18 Foundation 0x000000018904040c + 1000
19 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000195137e1c + 168
20 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000195137d74 + 0
21 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000195135554 thread_start + 4
)

2016-01-08 16:43:47.815 MyAPP[14249:f017] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Only run on the main thread!'

번들 아이디에 + 가 들어가 있어서 Tuist+SPM에서 사용할수가 없어요...

알파뉴메릭이나 하이픈, 피리어드만 쓰라고 하네요
혹시 수정 예정 있으실까요?

Invalid bundle identifier 'UITextView+Placeholder'. This string must be a uniform type identifier (UTI) that contains only alphanumeric (A-Z,a-z,0-9), hyphen (-), and period (.) characters.

Multi placeholder string for one uitextview

how to add the placeholder for Arabic and English for the same uitextview if that uitextview code is in my storyboard.i have created the outlet for that too.

【optimize】Use observer object replace textView itself

Swizzling dealloc and implement kvo method in category is not safe. We can use another observer object and associate it on textView. It can unobserve when textView dealloc.

Some code

@interface UITextView ()
@property (nonatomic, strong) _UITextViewObserver *xx_observer;
@end 

@interface _UITextViewObserver ()
@property (nonatomic, weak) UITextView *textView;
@end

@implementation _UITextViewObserver
+ (NSArray *)observingKeys {
    return @[
        @"attributedText",
        @"bounds",
        @"font",
        @"frame",
        @"text",
        @"textAlignment",
        @"textContainerInset",
        @"textContainer.exclusionPaths"
    ];
}
+ (instancetype)observerWithTextView:(UITextView *)textView
{
    _UITextViewObserver *observer = [_UITextViewObserver new];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:observer selector:@selector(update) name:UITextViewTextDidChangeNotification object:textView];
    for (NSString *key in [self.class observingKeys]) {
        [textView addObserver:observer forKeyPath:key options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
    }
    observer.textView = textView;
    return observer;
}

- (void)update
{
    [self.textView updatePlaceholderTextView];
}

- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary<NSKeyValueChangeKey,id> *)change context:(void *)context
{
    [self update];
}

- (void)dealloc
{
    for (NSString *key in [self.class observingKeys]) {
        [self.textView removeObserver:self forKeyPath:key];
    }
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}
@end

How to change the text alignment

Hi team,

My "textview" alignment is right, so How I will change the alignment.

Thanks,
Salim

Get rejected from AppStore

My app was rejected with next message:
2. 5 Performance: Software Requirements
Guideline 2.5.1 - Performance - Software Requirements

Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:

'ABLE.framework, _placeholderLabel, _file'
The use of non-public APIs is not permitted on the App Store because it can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change.

Continuing to use or conceal non-public APIs in future submissions of this app may result in the termination of your Apple Developer account, as well as removal of all associated apps from the App Store.

Looks like it`s because of placeholder color. Note that I copied UITextView+Placeholder.h and .m files instead of using pod. What do you think, can I resubmit my app after replacing
color = [textField valueForKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];
to
color = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
?

Got Reject from AppStore

I got reject from Apple and after I check all my project. I found that we are using Swizzling method to dealloc object. this is another topic I have read and they have the same issues with me. That make me confused for 2 days. Could you please review this.

Link of topic here

UITextField's _placeholderLabel

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Access to UITextField's _placeholderLabel ivar is prohibited. This is an application bug'

iOS 13

if set contentInset ,the placeholder location does't start like input text .

code

text.contentInset = .init(top: 0, left: 20, bottom: 0, right: 20)

Placeholder has wrong font size when UITextView is prepopulated with text

I have a UITextView with font size 22, specified in interface builder. I have the following code in viewDidLoad().

textView.placeHolder = "Placeholder text"
textView.text = "My real text"

The UITextView appears with "My real text" at the correct font size, but when I delete this text to reveal the placeholder, the placeholder font size appears to be 17 (or some smaller default).

delloc error

crash stack:
[UITextView dealloc]
[UITextView dealloc]
...
...
...
[UITextView dealloc]
[UITextView dealloc]
[UITextView dealloc]

ios9.1
only if I put your files in my project, delloc crash, remove files then ok.

TextView resets text if focused again

UiTextView resets the text inside it and places placeholder label even if there is text inside textview written by user. unfocus the textview and then focus again... all text cleared.

Line in swizzledDealloc triggers exception breakpoints

The exception breakpoint is triggered on the line in the try block, and while it does not crash the app it makes using the app in the debugger a pain because it interferes with my ability to identify other exceptions and test my app.

Is there a way to fix this? or even just special case the exception breakpoint behavior?

- (void)swizzledDealloc {
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
    for (NSString *key in self.class.observingKeys) {
        @try {
            [self removeObserver:self forKeyPath:key];
        }
        @catch (NSException *exception) {
            // Do nothing
        }
    }
    [self swizzledDealloc];
}

It is especially frustrating because it hits that breakpoint for each of the observing keys which typically are the following:

 (lldb) po self.class.observingKeys
<__NSArrayI 0x80a267c0>(
attributedText,
bounds,
font,
frame,
text,
textAlignment,
textContainerInset
)

casual crash on iOS 15 version 1.4

" UItextView has no member 'placeholder' "

I used swift pakage manager, and correctly imported in my project file but It doesn't work.

placeholder do not display

Xcode version: 11.3.1
Mac version: Catalina 10.15.2
code like this:
let addressTextView = UITextView()
addressTextView.placeholderColor = ConstantsHelp.buttonOrTextFieldTextColor
addressTextView.placeholder = "placeholder"
baseView.addSubview(addressTextView)
addressTextView.snp.makeConstraints { (make) in
XXXXXX
}
it works well before but now it dose not display, debug its frame is .zero. so i set layoutIfNeeded(),it can get the right frame . Xcode or swift make a change? o((⊙﹏⊙))o

@import UIKit;

While compilation in UITextView+Placeholder.h I have a error "Use @import when modules are disabed". Unfortunately I cannot add use_frameworks! to my pod file.
Please replace @import UIKit; with #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> in header file

Wrong initial position in iOS 7

Placeholder label should have isAccessibilityElement set to NO

Just like you have the userInteractionEnabled set to NO, the isAccessibilityElement should be NO as well, otherwise it is being selected by VoiceOver

exclusionPaths problem

When using exclusionPaths of textContainer like
textView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [UIBezierPath(rect: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 70, height: 30))] then the placeholder label is not excluded.

One possible solution is replacing placeholderLabel to placeholderTextView and apply exclusionPaths to placeholderTextView as same as its superview(UITextView).

If above solution seems ok, then I will work on.

placeholder gets cut off when using Autolayout + placeholder text is more than 1 line

I use auto layout and when a view is aligned to the bottom of the text view, it cuts off the placeholder label

Interface Builder support [feature-request]

Since Xcode now supports IB_DESIGNABLE to identify an object needs to draw custom and IBInspectable to identify properties that can be populated to the inspector, I tried to add support myself.

IB_DESIGNABLE   // not sure if 100% needed because UITextView might be designable by default
@interface UITextView (Placeholder)
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBInspectable NSString *placeholder;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBInspectable UIColor *placeholderColor;
@end                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

@implementation
#pragma mark - Interface Builder support
- (void)prepareForInterfaceBuilder {
    [super prepareForInterfaceBuilder];
    [self updatePlaceholderLabel];
}
@end

Unfortunately it does not render but since I don't have any time and am on a really tight schedule, I need to open a feature request instead of investigating my self.

Probably one would need to create custom drawing of the placeholder in - [UIViewController prepareForInterfaceBuilder]

Placeholder font changes if the first character entered into the text view is an emoticon

It changes to a monospaced font, like so:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Enter emoticon into text view
2. Delete emoticon

Expected Outcome:
Text view shows placeholder with correct font.

Actual Outcome:
Text view shows placeholder with monospaced font:
<UICTFont: 0x7fc85e9ed660> font-family: "Apple Color Emoji"; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.00pt">

Do you plan to support When use Nib

Great framework,but do you plan to support when construct your interface via Interface builder?If you can support it,great features.....

pod 'UITextView+Placeholder', '~> 1.2' is not working

I used this command instead

pod 'UITextView+Placeholder', :git => 'https://github.com/devxoul/UITextView-Placeholder.git', :tag => '1.2.0'

Crash when using on TestFlight on iOS 13

Backtrace:

Last Exception Backtrace:
0   CoreFoundation                	0x180afc98c __exceptionPreprocess + 220 (NSException.m:199)
1   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x1808250a4 objc_exception_throw + 56 (objc-exception.mm:565)
2   CoreFoundation                	0x1809f2054 +[NSException raise:format:] + 108 (NSException.m:155)
3   UIKitCore                     	0x184e4efe8 UIKVCAccessProhibited + 284 (UIDebug.m:26)
4   UIKitCore                     	0x184dcd6f4 -[UITextField valueForKey:] + 96 (UITextField.m:3523)
5   Foundation                    	0x180db7778 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] + 248 (NSKeyValueCoding.m:511)
6   UITextView_Placeholder        	0x1013f4d64 __50+[UITextView(Placeholder) defaultPlaceholderColor]_block_invoke + 84 (UITextView+Placeholder.m:62)
7   libdispatch.dylib             	0x1807ca184 _dispatch_client_callout + 16 (object.m:495)
8   libdispatch.dylib             	0x18079cf7c _dispatch_once_callout + 28 (once.c:52)
9   UITextView_Placeholder        	0x1013f4d08 +[UITextView(Placeholder) defaultPlaceholderColor] + 56 (once.h:84)
10  UITextView_Placeholder        	0x1013f4f24 -[UITextView(Placeholder) placeholderLabel] + 216 (UITextView+Placeholder.m:92)
11  UITextView_Placeholder        	0x1013f51b4 -[UITextView(Placeholder) setPlaceholder:] + 52 (UITextView+Placeholder.m:121)

Multiple calls of `load` after integrating

We are experiencing multiple calls of the load method after introducing the library. I believe it is due to the call to [super load] found in UITextView-Placeholder.m

Call to [super load] should be omitted, the system will already call load itself for each class.

Swift Package Manager Support

Please add support for adding dependencies with Swift Package Manager 🙏

Is there anyway to change the placeholderLabel's position?

iOS13 b5 Crashes when setting an attributed placeholder

When setting an attributed placeholder in iOS13 b5, a crash occurs at dispatch_once in UITextView+Placeholder.m

+ (UIColor *)defaultPlaceholderColor {
    static UIColor *color = nil;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] init];
        textField.placeholder = @" ";
        color = [textField valueForKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];
    });
    return color;
}

For example, in our Swift code,

let attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [NSAttributedString.Key.font: font,
                                                            NSAttributedString.Key.kern: kern,
                                                            NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: Style.placeholderColor]

 textView.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "Description", attributes: attributes)

Crash on iOS 15

observeValueForKeyPathin the UITextView+Placeholder.m calls [self updatePlaceholderTextView]; which performs bounds change. Then observeValueForKeyPath is called again for the property "bounds" with a change dictionary like this:

{
    kind = 1;
    new = "NSRect: {{..., ...}, {..., ...}}";
}

It creates an infinite loop

Change Usage section of the README.md

My project is in Objective-C.

I got an error "'UITextView+Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h' file not found" after importing this library by 'pod install'.

Then I found that the right way to import "<UITextView_Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h>".
Expect to add another item in the Usage section; like the following:

Import Dynamic Framework:

e.g. If you're using CocoaPods with use_frameworks! flag.

@import UITextView_Placeholder;
Import Static Library:

#import <UITextView+Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h>

Import by pod:
#import <UITextView_Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h>

Placeholder doesn't appear until after typing and deleting

The placeholder is hidden unless you type and delete the text, then it appears

iOS 13 beta Crashing: "Access to UITextField's _placeholderLabel ivar is prohibited. This is an application bug"

We are using this dependency in our app and as of iOS 13 Beta 2 we are getting crashes because of how the framework uses KVC to access Apple's private APIs.

[textfield setValue:[UIColor whiteColor] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

"NSGenericException" - reason: "Access to UITextField's _placeholderLabel ivar is prohibited. This is an application bug"

Pretty important fix required here: @devxoul

'UITextView+Placeholder/UITextView+Placeholder.h' file not found

i install pod 'UITextView+Placeholder', '~> 1.2' but error receive how to handle this

textView.alwaysBounceVertical = YES; Placeholder does not follow scroll.

Project not being maintained - please mark it as such

• you have not done a release in a couple years
• you are not merging PR's

Please kill this project so others don't try to use it

iOS6 not support

@Property(nonatomic,readonly) NSTextContainer *textContainer NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(7_0);

your code:
x = self.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding + self.textContainerInset.left;
y = self.textContainerInset.top;
width = (CGRectGetWidth(self.bounds) - x - self.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding
- self.textContainerInset.right);

could I set the default value, so I can run in iOS6 ??
// lineFragmentPadding default 5.0
// textContainerInset = (top = 8, left = 0, bottom = 8, right = 0)

the attributedPlaceholder font will be overrided.

- (void)updatePlaceholderLabel {
        // ...
        self.placeholderLabel.font = self.font;        
        // ...
   }

see the code. the font of attributedPlaceholder's will be overrided.

Attributed and non-attributed placeholder overlapping on iOS 13.4

What

Attributed and non-attributed placeholder overlapping on iOS 13.4. The issue seems to be related to the order we set text and the placeholder text.

Is this an expected behavior? I guess the most obvious expectation would be that the last one set(attributed or not) should be the one that rules.

References

Repository with described issue

willDealloc never execute

I have found an another problem, willDealloc never execute.
So It can't execute [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self]; in willDealloc's block method ?

When I remove [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(updatePlaceholderLabel)
name:UITextViewTextDidChangeNotification
object:self];

The below mothod did't exec either..

• (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath
  ofObject:(id)object
  change:(NSDictionary *)change
  context:(void *)context {
  [self updatePlaceholderLabel];
  }