How to change the font color / Text Color of the UIBarButtonItem on navigation bar

Question

I add a bar button to the navigation bar programitically as follows

UIBarButtonItem *cancel = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"CANCEL" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(goToPreviousView)];
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = cancel;

Now I want to display Text "CANCEL" in RED Color.

I mean that I need to change the text on the bar button items, but not the tint color of the button.

How to do that?

Answer 1

Another method is :-

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"delete.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setTitle:@"Delete" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
 button.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:12.0f];
[button.layer setCornerRadius:4.0f];
[button.layer setMasksToBounds:YES];
[button.layer setBorderWidth:1.0f];
[button.layer setBorderColor: [[UIColor grayColor] CGColor]];
button.frame=CGRectMake(0.0, 100.0, 60.0, 30.0);
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(batchDelete)  forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

UIBarButtonItem* deleteItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];

Answer 2

Just an iOS7 Update with Modern Obj-C Syntax:

[barButtonItem setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Answer 3

UITextAttributeTextColor //Is deprecated on iOS 7. 

This code is used for change the text color from from appearance proxy.

[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Answer 4

Here is updated swift 4.0 version code :

let reset = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Reset All", style: .plain , target: self, action: #selector(self.resetButtonClicked(_ :) ))
reset.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.red], for: .normal)