placeholder text and typed in text not aligning in UITextField

Question

I have a UITextfield with some placeholder text.

I have used both alignment properties. However, the palceholder text is still a little on the upper side. Can anyone help me out ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;

Answer 2

Here's my solution in MonoTouch for having to fix the alignment of placeholder vs text. As I noted in the comments -- there are three distinct pieces: the editing, the static text, and the static placeholder. The equivalent in Objective-C is drawTextInRect: and drawPlaceholderInRect:.

My solution was to subclass and offset the mis-aligned items. Unfortunately the issue seems to be related to the font-file itself and how editing mode affects it, vs. how iOS renders static text.

Hope this helps someone.

Allison

public class MyTextField : UITextField
{
    public MyTextField(RectangleF rect) : base(rect)
    {
    }

    public override void DrawPlaceholder(RectangleF rect)
    {
        base.DrawPlaceholder(new RectangleF(rect.X, rect.Y + 2, rect.Width, rect.Height));
    }

    public override void DrawText(RectangleF rect)
    {
        base.DrawText(new RectangleF(rect.X, rect.Y + 2, rect.Width, rect.Height));
    }
}