A UITextView subclass that adds support for multiline placeholder written in Swift
KMPlaceholderTextView
A UITextView subclass that adds support for multiline placeholder written in Swift.
Usage
You can set the value of the placeholder
property just like using UITextField.
Interface Builder
- Drag a UITextView object onto the canvas.
- In the Identity inspector, set the Custom Class name to
KMPlaceholderTextView
. - In the Attributes inspector, you can change the value of the
placeholder
property directly.
Code
let placeholderTextView = KMPlaceholderTextView(frame: view.bounds)
placeholderTextView.placeholder = "What's on your mind?"
view.addSubview(placeholderTextView)
Installation
CocoaPods
You can install the latest release version of CocoaPods with the following command:
$ gem install cocoapods
Simply add the following line to your Podfile:
platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!
target '<Your Target Name>' do
pod 'KMPlaceholderTextView', '~> 1.4.0'
end
Then, run the following command:
$ pod install
If you are encountering the following warning when using Xcode 8, please make sure to set the Module in the identity inspector of your KMPlaceholderTextView
in the interface builder to KMPlaceholderTextView
as well:
warning: IB Designables: Using class UITextView for object with custom class because the class KMPlaceholderTextView does not exist
Carthage
Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager that automates the process of adding frameworks to your Cocoa application.
You can install Carthage with Homebrew using the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install carthage
To integrate KMPlaceholderTextView into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile
:
github "MoZhouqi/KMPlaceholderTextView" >= 1.4
Requirements
- iOS 7.0+
- Xcode 10
License
KMPlaceholderTextView is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.