iPhone UITextField controlling background color

Question

Greetings,

I am unable to control the background color of a UITextField with a borderStyle= UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect. With this border style the backgroundColor property only seems to control a very narrow line along the inner edge of the rounded rectangle. The rest of the field remains white.

However, if the borderStyle is set to UIBorderStyle=UITextBorderStyleBezel then the entire background of the UITextField is controlled by its backgroundColor property.

Is this a feature?

Is there a way to control the backgroundColor of a UITextField with a borderStyle=UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect?

Thanks,

Stephen

Answer 1

A dump of the view hierarchy reveals that the UITextField has a single subview of type UITextFieldRoundedRectBackgroundView, which in turn has 12 UIImageViews.

An older article by Erica Sadun shows an additional UILabel, which Apple apparently removed in later versions of the SDK.

Fiddling with the UIImageViews doesn't change much.

So the answer is: there's probably no way to change the background color.

Answer 2

You can do this:

textField.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

In this case I'm doing it with white color but you can do it with another color for uiColor.

Hopes it helps