How to disable UITextField's edit property? [duplicate]

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Easy way to disable a UITextField?

I have a UITextField. I want to disable its edit property. I just want to display a text in it.

How can i achieve it ?.

Answer 1

To disable editing in UITextField you need to return NO in delegate method textFieldShouldBeginEditing:

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{     return NO; } 

To disable editing in UITextView set property editable to NO:

[textView setEditable:NO];