How to Resize UITextField Placeholder Text to Fit UITextField width?

Question

Can Change UITextField Placeholder Text Color as follows:

[txtField setValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:128.0/255.0 green:128.0/255.0 blue:128.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]
                    forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

Similarly is there any way to Resize UITextField Placeholder Text Font to Fit UITextField width?

Note: I have text fields in custom cell of table view and also using autolayout in custom cell.

see this https://gist.github.com/jpmhouston/35686fc811b1c62effe5/ — Anbu.Karthik, Aug 08 '16 at 06:55
check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18244790/changing-uitextfield-placeholder-font — coder, Aug 08 '16 at 07:05
thnaks for the links but, i tried it and doesn't seems to work. — Ronak Chaniyara, Aug 08 '16 at 07:26

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 00:31

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I met the same issue, here is the solution:

UILabel *placeHolderLabel = [self.registrationCodeTextfield valueForKey:@"_placeholderLabel"];
placeHolderLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;

answered Nov 15 '17 at 00:31

Yuchao Zhou

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '16 at 10:47

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Here is one coding that i used in ViewDidLoad to set the placeholder of textfield of desirable size. -----------------------------------code-----------------------------------------

UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 12, 20)];
textfieldUsername.leftView = paddingView;
textfieldUsername.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

[[UITextField appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[textfieldUsername setValue:[UIColor lightTextColor] forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

(Nj)

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not working, i want to scale font of textfield placeholder text and i have fixed width textfield which truncates placeholder text@Garry – Ronak Chaniyara Aug 08 '16 at 12:16
@Ronak Chaniyara Did manage to solve this issue? I have exactly same problem. Please let me know how you solved it!! Thanks – Mr.KLD Aug 18 '16 at 02:11

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 18 '16 at 09:27

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Here is code

 textField.placeholder = @"Pavankumar";
 [textField setValue:[UIColor greenColor]
                    forKeyPath:@"_placeholderLabel.textColor"];

see below code it change font of the placeholder

textField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc]initWithString:@"Pavankumar" attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor greenColor],NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-light" size:12.0]}];

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answered Aug 08 '16 at 10:51

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i think you have misunderstood the question, i want scale font of textfield placeholder text not color@Pavankumar – Ronak Chaniyara Aug 08 '16 at 12:14

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 29 '16 at 17:01

You have the placeholder text and you have the frame of the uitextfield . From these two you can calculate the font size which fits and assign as a Attributed Placeholder String.

If calculated font size is less than your limit , then use that font size other wise use the limit

How to Resize UITextField Placeholder Text to Fit UITextField width?

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