How to change text color of UISearchBar
in iOS 7
?
In iOS 6
, I was subclassing the UISearchBar
and in layoutSubviews
customising the properties of UITextField
subview of UISearchBar
.
But in iOS 7
, UISearchBar
doesn't have UITextField
as its subview. How to fix this?
In iOS 7 to access Text Field you have to reiterate on level more. Change your code like this
for (UIView *subView in self.searchBar.subviews)
{
for (UIView *secondLevelSubview in subView.subviews){
if ([secondLevelSubview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
{
UITextField *searchBarTextField = (UITextField *)secondLevelSubview;
//set font color here
searchBarTextField.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
break;
}
}
}
Note : This is Not Public API
OR
You can use appearance Property of UIControls, Like
[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setDefaultTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor]}];
Note: Appearance proxy can be used for iOS 9.0+ OutPut
You can set The tintcolor
to apply to key elements in the search bar
.
Use tintColor
to tint foreground elements.
Use barTintColor
to tint the bar background.
In iOS v7.0, all subclasses of UIView derive their behavior for tintColor from the base class. See the discussion of tintColor at the UIView level for more information. Apple Doc
You can set the text colour by
[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
For XCode 6 (iOS8 SDK) the following DOESN'T work
[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];
But the following DOES work (for deployment to iOS7 and iOS8)
[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setDefaultTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor redColor]}];
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