Text in UITextField will not center properly

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I think that my question is related to thread. I have a login screen with two UITextFields (user/pass). Both are horizontally center aligned with placeholder text. When I press a field, the placeholder text jumps a bit to the left and the marker is positioned after the first character (which looks awful).

Text field in focus .

When I start typing, the clear button appears (as it should) but the text is not correctly centered in the UITextField view.

Textfield with text

The problem only occurs when a text field has first responder.

How can I make the darn text and placeholder text stay in the center of the text field???

UPDATE: Text field settings in Storyboard:

Text field settings in Storyboard

remove clear button=) Or add the view with the same size into `leftView`, and the same mode of displaying — Ossir, Apr 18 '13 at 08:54
NOOOOO :) Granted, that solves the problem but that can't be the only option. I would really like to have the clear button pop up when editing — Chuckels5584, Apr 18 '13 at 08:58
There is no code altering the text field. It's all done in Storyboard. See added screenshot of settings. — Chuckels5584, Apr 18 '13 at 09:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '15 at 09:53

I had the same problem and what I did is that I've created my custom control that has UITextField above and UILabel below both controls has the same width and height. When I need to display text placeholder I set label alpha to 1 and when I need to hide placeholder I set alpha to 0. Also I set text inoput bg color to clear color. In addition to do all of this I implement UITextFieldDelegate (textFieldDidBeginEditing/ textFieldDidEndEditing/ shouldChangeCharactersInRange)

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 06:55

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Please see the control alignment in the below image and set accordingly. It will solve your problem enter image description here

answered Jul 20 '15 at 06:55

Karlos

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