UITextView text border

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Border around UITextView

I want to create a border around the text in a UITextView. I was able to accomplish this by creating 8 separate UITextViews and offsetting them to the 8 pixels around the center text. This looks really nice, but inputting text is severely slowed since the view has to update 9 transparent UITextViews simultaneously every time the user types something!

Is there a cleaner/faster way of accomplishing this? The effect I want is similar to photoshops 'stroke' modifier.

You ***really*** created 8 text views? o.O – Oct 06 '12 at 20:45 — , Oct 06 '12 at 20:45
Ya lol, I had no other way to do it at the time!!! – Parad0x13 Oct 06 '12 at 20:53 — Parad0x13, Oct 06 '12 at 20:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '12 at 21:01

Can you put screenshot of what u mean by border around the text ?

If you want to have the border for UITextView try out following, this should work

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

UITextView *textView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 300, 100)];
    textView.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor redColor] CGColor];
    textView.layer.borderWidth = 2;

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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I'm not sure why my answer was deleted, perhaps because I posted the same solution on an almost identical question? You can find it there: Bordered UITextView

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Nov 13 '12 at 16:13

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your solution is not right for this question. he needs border around the text of textview, not around frame of textview – Imran Ahmed Jul 04 '15 at 07:12

UITextView text border

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