Styling the cancel button in a UISearchBar

Question

I have a UISearchBar that has a cancel button (it\'s displayed using -(void)setShowsCancelButton:animated). I\'ve changed the tintColor of the sear

Answer 1

Swift 2.1.1:

There's no simple way to hook in and style the search bar, you need to grab the subview manually from the search bar and then apply your changes.

var cancelButton: UIButton
let topView: UIView = self.customSearchController.customSearchBar.subviews[0] as UIView
for subView in topView.subviews {
 if subView.isKindOfClass(NSClassFromString("UINavigationButton")!) {
    cancelButton = subView as! UIButton
    cancelButton.enabled = true
    cancelButton.setTitle("TestTitle", forState: UIControlState.Normal) // Change to set the title
    cancelButton.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: "ImageName"), forState: .Normal) // Change this to set a custom cancel button image, set the title to "" to remove 'Cancel' text
   }
}