Uppercase characters in UItextfield

Question

I have a question about iOS UIKeyboard.

I have a UITextField and I would to have the keyboard with only uppercase characters.

I use a storyboard and I tried to set the Cpitalization as "All characters" to UITextField properties.

But this not solve my problem...any suggestion?

Answer 1

Set your textfield type autocapitalizationType to UITextAutocapitalizationTypeAllCharacters on the UITextField

self.yourTexField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeAllCharacters;

After call delegate

// delegate method

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    NSRange lowercaseCharRange = [string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet lowercaseLetterCharacterSet]];

    if (lowercaseCharRange.location != NSNotFound) {
        textField.text = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range
                                                                 withString:[string uppercaseString]];
        return NO;
    }

    return YES;
}

Answer 2

For those looking for a Swift version.

Swift 4

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    textField.text = (textField.text! as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string.uppercased())

    return false
}

Original answer

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    textField.text = (textField.text as NSString).stringByReplacingCharactersInRange(range, withString: string.uppercaseString)

    return false
}

Using the Capitalization: All Characters property just forces keyboard to open with caps lock on, but lets the user to turned it off.

Answer 3

One issue I have with some of the above answers is if you try and set textfield.text, you will lose the cursor position. So if a user tries to edit the middle of the text, the cursor will jump to the end.

Here is my Swift solution, still using UITextFieldDelegate:

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

    if textField == textFieldToUppercase {
        if string == "" {
            // User presses backspace
            textField.deleteBackward()
        } else {
            // User presses a key or pastes
            textField.insertText(string.uppercaseString)
        }
        // Do not let specified text range to be changed
        return false
    }

    return true
}

Answer 4

The syntax is now

Swift 2

textField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationType.AllCharacters

Swift 3

textField.autocapitalizationType = .allCharacters

Answer 5

Set UITextField property autocapitalizationType to UITextAutocapitalizationTypeAllCharacters. This will make all characters to appear in upper case. Also visit here to find more about textfields

Answer 6

This is a different approach I used, where it does the following:

1. Enforces capitalization as soon as the character is entered
2. Catches situations where the user disables caps lock even if it textfield is set to auto caps
3. Allows for easy editing
4. Works with Swift 2.2

First, register a notification to be updated whenever any changes occur in the textfield.

    textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(YourClassName.textFieldDidChange(_:)), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged)

Then, implement textFieldDidChange.

func textFieldDidChange(textField: UITextField) {
    textField.text = textField.text?.uppercaseString
}

I chose this to avoid a situation where the user sees an uneven experience of some capitalized, but then changed once they move to the next character.

Answer 7

Swift 4.0 Version:

First set the delegate for the textfield you want to uppercase to the current ViewController (click drag from the textfield to the currentViewController to set the delegate).

After add the extension:

extension CurrentViewController: UITextFieldDelegate{

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

        //refference to the textfield you want to target
        if textField.tag == 5{
            textField.text = (textField.text! as NSString).replacingCharacters(in: range, with: string.uppercased())
            return false
        }
        return true
    }
}

Answer 8

You can also use this code.

-(BOOL) textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range     replacementString:(NSString *)string{

    // Uppercase for string which you need 
    textField.text = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range 
                                 withString:[string uppercaseString]];

    // return NO because You have already done it in above code
    return NO;
}

Answer 9

The simplest way would be to implement the editing changed method of the text field and set the textfield's text value to upper case representation of the entered text.

@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITextField *yourTextfield

// add target in code or use interface builder
[self.yourTextField addTarget:self 
                       action:@selector(uppercaseTextField)
             forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingChanged];

- (IBAction)uppercaseTextField:(UITextField*)textField
{
    textField.text = [textField.text uppercaseString];
}

Answer 10

Finally I found the way that respects also editing text in the middle of the string in UITextField.

The problem is that if you replace whole text by UITextFiled.text property the actual cursor moves to end of text. So you need to use .replace() method to specify exactly which characters you want to update to upperCase.

Last thing is to return string.isEmpty as return value of function - otherwise you are not allowing deleting of text.

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    if let text = textField.text, let textRange = Range(range, in: text) {
        let uppercasedString = string.uppercased()
        let updatedText = text.replacingCharacters(in: textRange, with: uppercasedString)
        if let selectedTextRange = textField.selectedTextRange {
            textField.replace(selectedTextRange, withText: uppercasedString)
            approveButtonState(vin: updatedText)
        }
        return string.isEmpty
    }
    return false
}

Answer 11

Just one line code in ViewDidLoad/ViewDidAppear:

If you simply want to see the characters typed regardless of the UPPER/lower case to all CAPITALS/UPPER CASE paste below code either in ViewDidLoad/ViewDidAppear

self.MyTextField.autocapitalizationType = .allCharacters

above line changes all letters into CAPITALS while you type automatically

Answer 12

Maybe it's a bit late for an answer here, but as I have a working solution someone might find it useful.

Well, in the following textfield delegate method, check if the new string contains any lowercase characters. If so, then:

• Append the character that was just typed to the textfield's text.
• Make all the textfield's text uppercased.
• Make sure that false is returned by the method.

Otherwise just return true and let the method work as expected.

Here's its implementation:

func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    var returnValue = true
    let lowercaseRange = string.rangeOfCharacter(from: CharacterSet.lowercaseLetters)
    if let _ = lowercaseRange?.isEmpty {
        returnValue = false
    }

    if !returnValue {
        textField.text = (textField.text! + string).uppercased()
    }

    return returnValue
}

The above has worked perfectly for me, and a similar implementation works for textviews too, after making the proper adjustments first of course.

Hope it helps!

Answer 13

/**
 We take full control of the text entered so that lowercase cannot be inserted
 we replace lowercase to uppercase
*/
func textField(_ textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {

    // No spaces allowed
    if string == " " {
        return false
    }

    // delete key pressed
    if string == "" {
        textField.deleteBackward()
        return false
    }

    // We only allow alphabet and numbers
    let numbersAndLettersSet = CharacterSet.alphanumerics
    if string.lowercased().rangeOfCharacter(from: numbersAndLettersSet) == nil {
        return false
    }

    // Add the entered text
    textField.insertText(string.uppercased())

    // Return false as we are doing full control
    return false
}

Answer 14

Here there's my situation and how I achieved to force the upper text:

• custom class (UITextField subclass)
• don't want to use delegate UITextFieldDelegate methods

Solution proposed from @CodeBender was pretty much what I was looking for but the cursor always jump to the end as noticed from @Dan.

class MyCustomTextField: UITextField {
...
addTarget(self, action: #selector(upperText), for: .editingChanged)
...
...
@objc private func upperText() {
    let textRange = selectedTextRange
    text = text?.uppercased()
    selectedTextRange = textRange
}

This will set the cursor always in the correct position (where it was) even if user adds text in "the middle".

Answer 15

Using the following text field delegate method it can be done:

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range
replacementString:(NSString *)string {
//--- Making uppercase ---//
        if (textField == yourTextField ) {
            NSRange lowercaseCharRange;
            lowercaseCharRange = [string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet lowercaseLetterCharacterSet]];

            if (lowercaseCharRange.location != NSNotFound) {

                textField.text = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range
                                                                         withString:[string uppercaseString]];
                return NO;
            }
        }


}

Hope this helps.