how to change the preamble text colour of a UITextField

Question

UITextField's .textColor changes both the colour of the initial preamble text and the colour of any subsequent text the user may input. I want to have the preamble colour red and any subsequent text black - is that possible?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33414757/how-to-change-uitexefield-placeholder-color-and-fontsize-using-swift-2-0/33415013#33415013 — Kirit Modi, Apr 11 '17 at 09:21
Possible duplicate of [How to change UITexefield placeholder color and fontsize using swift 2.0?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33414757/how-to-change-uitexefield-placeholder-color-and-fontsize-using-swift-2-0) — Marinos K, Apr 11 '17 at 09:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '17 at 08:35

You can't set the colour of the placeholder text in Interface Builder, but if you set the text in Interface Builder, then you can "colorise" it using something like

self.textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
 string: self.textField.placeholder!, 
 attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.green])

If you aren't using Interface Builder then you can just specify the desired string directly

self.textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
 string: "My placeholder text", 
 attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.green])

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '17 at 08:31

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use placeholder for preamble text and can provide textcolor to placeholder using textField.attributedPlaceholder

now you can have two colors for the textField.

answered Apr 11 '17 at 08:31

Sumeet.Jain

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not sure I follow you, any code or links on how to do this? – Marinos K Apr 11 '17 at 08:35
for the preamble text use: textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "preamble text", attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.redColor()]) – Sumeet.Jain Apr 11 '17 at 09:14

how to change the preamble text colour of a UITextField

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