Bordered UITextView

I want to have a thin gray border around a UITextView. I have gone through the Apple docum开发者_Python百科entation but couldn't find any property there. Please help.

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#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

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// typically inside of the -(void) viewDidLoad method
self.yourUITextView.layer.borderWidth = 5.0f;
self.yourUITextView.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];

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Add the following for rounded corners:

self.yourUITextview.layer.cornerRadius = 8; 

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Here's the code I used, to add a border around my TextView control named "tbComments" :

self.tbComments.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];
self.tbComments.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
self.tbComments.layer.cornerRadius = 8;

And here's what it looks like:

Easy peasy.

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I add UIImageView as a subview of the UITextView. This matches the native border on a UITextField, including the gradient from top to bottom:

textView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
UIImageView *borderView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0, 0, textView.frame.size.width, textView.frame.size.height)];
borderView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
UIImage *textFieldImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"TextField.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(15, 8, 15, 8)];
borderView.image = textFieldImage;
[textField addSubview: borderView];
[textField sendSubviewToBack: borderView];

These are the png images I use, and a jpg representation:

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Works great, but the color should be a CGColor, not UIColor:

view.layer.borderWidth = 5.0f;
view.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor];

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I believe the above answers are for the previous versions of Swift. I Googled a bit and the below code works for Swift 4. Just sharing it for whoever it may benefit.

self.textViewName.layer.borderColor = UIColor.lightGray.cgColor
self.textViewName.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
self.textViewName.layer.cornerRadius = 8

Happy Coding!

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for Swift Programming, use this

tv_comment.layer.borderWidth = 2
tv_comment.layer.borderColor = UIColor(red: 0.2, green: 0.2, blue: 0.2, alpha: 1).CGColor

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this is as close as I could from an original UITextField

func updateBodyTextViewUI() {
    let borderColor = UIColor.init(red: 212/255, green: 212/255, blue: 212/255, alpha: 0.5)

    self.bodyTextView.layer.borderColor = borderColor.CGColor
    self.bodyTextView.layer.borderWidth = 0.8
    self.bodyTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5
}

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you can add border to UITextView from the Storyboard - Identity Inspector - User Defined Runtime Attribute

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As of iOS 8 and Xcode 6, I now find the best solution is to subclass UITextView and mark the subclass as an IB_DESIGNABLE, which will allow you to view the border in storyboard.

Header:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

IB_DESIGNABLE

@interface BorderTextView : UITextView

@end

Implementation:

#import "BorderTextView.h"

@implementation BorderTextView

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    self.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
    self.layer.borderColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
    self.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0f;
}

@end

Then just drag out your UITextView in storyboard and set its class to BorderTextView

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The thing that made it work (in addition to following the answers here) is adding the borderStyle attribute:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
..

phoneTextField.layer.borderWidth = 1.0f;
phoneTextField.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor blueColor] CGColor];
phoneTextField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleNone;

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Just a small addition. If you make the border a bit wider, it will interfere with the left and right side of text. To avoid that, I added the following line:

self.someTextView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(8.0, 8.0, 8.0, 8.0);

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In Swift 3, you may use the following two lines:

myText.layer.borderColor = UIColor.lightGray.cgColor

myText.layer.borderWidth = 1.0

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An elegant solution would be to insert a real UITextField on the bottom and prevent it to scroll with the content. This way you have even the correct dark mode borders.