Center align placeholder in textfield

Question

I know this question been asked many times but as drawinrect deprecated and I need this in ios 8.As I have a textfield and I need the placeholder in center align and rest of the test left align.Please help me out.

Answer 1

You can center the placeholder by using an attributedPlaceholder with a paragraph style whose alignment is set to .center:

let centeredParagraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
centeredParagraphStyle.alignment = .center
textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(
    string: "Placeholder", 
    attributes: [.paragraphStyle: centeredParagraphStyle]
)

Answer 2

based on Clay Ellis answer

Details

• Xcode Version 10.2.1 (10E1001), Swift 5

Solution 1

let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
paragraphStyle.alignment = .center
textField.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: placeholder, attributes: [.paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle])

Solution 2

import Foundation

extension String {
    func toAttributed(alignment: NSTextAlignment) -> NSAttributedString {
        let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
        paragraphStyle.alignment = .center
        return toAttributed(attributes: [.paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle])
    }

    func toAttributed(attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key : Any]? = nil) -> NSAttributedString {
        return NSAttributedString(string: self, attributes: attributes)
    }
}

Usage of the solution 2

// Way 1
textField.attributedPlaceholder = text.attributedString(alignment: .center)
// Way 2
textField.attributedPlaceholder = "title".attributedString(alignment: .center)

Full sample

Do not forget to add the solution code here

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let textField = UITextField()
        textField.borderStyle = .roundedRect
        view.addSubview(textField)
        //textField.attributedPlaceholder = getAttributedString1()
        textField.attributedPlaceholder = getAttributedString2()
        textField.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        textField.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor, constant: 24).isActive = true
        textField.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.leftAnchor, constant: 16).isActive = true
        view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: textField.rightAnchor, constant: 16).isActive = true
    }

    private func getAttributedString1() -> NSAttributedString {
        return "placeholder".toAttributed(alignment: .center)
    }

    private func getAttributedString2() -> NSAttributedString {
        var attributes = [NSAttributedString.Key: Any]()
        let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
        paragraphStyle.alignment = .center
        attributes[.paragraphStyle] = paragraphStyle
        attributes[.font] = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12, weight: .bold)
        attributes[.foregroundColor] = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.5)
        attributes[.underlineStyle] = NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue
        attributes[.underlineColor] = UIColor.red
        return "placeholder".toAttributed(attributes: attributes)
    }
}

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