Change the color of a link in an NSMutableAttributedString

Question

I have the following code but my links are always blue. How do I cange the color of them?

[_string addAttribute:NSLinkAttributeName value:tag range:NSMakeRange(position, length)]; [_string addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:(12.0)] range:NSMakeRange(position, length)]; [_string addAttribute:NSStrokeColorAttributeName value:[UIColor greenColor] range:NSMakeRange(position, length)]; 

_string is a NSMutableAttributedString and the position and length work fine.

Answer 1

Swift

Updated for Swift 4.2

Use linkTextAttributes with a UITextView

textView.linkTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.green] 

And in context:

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "The site is www.google.com.") let linkRange = (attributedString.string as NSString).range(of: "www.google.com") attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.link, value: "https://www.google.com", range: linkRange) let linkAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key : Any] = [     NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.green,     NSAttributedString.Key.underlineColor: UIColor.lightGray,     NSAttributedString.Key.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue ]  // textView is a UITextView textView.linkTextAttributes = linkAttributes textView.attributedText = attributedString 

Objective-C

Use linkTextAttributes with a UITextView

textView.linkTextAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor greenColor]}; 

Source: this answer

And from this post:

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"This is an example by @marcelofabri_"]; [attributedString addAttribute:NSLinkAttributeName                          value:@"username://marcelofabri_"                          range:[[attributedString string] rangeOfString:@"@marcelofabri_"]];   NSDictionary *linkAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor greenColor],                                  NSUnderlineColorAttributeName: [UIColor lightGrayColor],                                  NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName: @(NSUnderlineStyleSingle)};  // assume that textView is a UITextView previously created (either by code or Interface Builder) textView.linkTextAttributes = linkAttributes; // customizes the appearance of links textView.attributedText = attributedString; textView.delegate = self; 

Answer 2

The link color is the tint color of the label/textView. So, you can change it by changing the tint color of the view. However, this will not work if you want different link colours within the same view.