UITextField Placeholder

[tobinharris]

Anyone got an example of styling a UITextField with custom colours for placeholder and input text.

Is achieved by this, but after editing the green text style reverts to that of the placeholder.

MyView {
  ^UILabel{
    font: $default-font 18
    text-color: #222222
  }
  UITextField{
    font: $default-font 20
    text-color: #67AB1C

    UIFieldEditor{
        UITexiFieldLabel{
        text-color: #CCCCCC
    }
      }
      UILabel{
        text-color: #67AB1C
      }

  }
} 

[keithnorm]

The main problem is that UIKit doesn't expose a color property for the placeholder text (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340224/iphone-uitextfield-change-placeholder-text-color). You can however set an attributed string through textField.attributedPlaceholder and set the foregroundColor of that attributed string from a property that is set via Classy.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense and I can work up a quick example.

[dnedrow]

@keithnorm , I don't know if you're still monitoring Classy, but could you provide the example you mentioned for using attributedPlaceholder? I've been trying to work this out and haven't found the magic combination yet.