Bordered UITextView

Question

I want to have a thin gray border around a UITextView. I have gone through the Apple documentation but couldn\'t find any property there. Please help.

Answer 1

As of iOS 8 and Xcode 6, I now find the best solution is to subclass UITextView and mark the subclass as an IB_DESIGNABLE, which will allow you to view the border in storyboard.

Header:

#import 

IB_DESIGNABLE

@interface BorderTextView : UITextView

@end

Implementation:

#import "BorderTextView.h"

@implementation BorderTextView

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    self.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
    self.layer.borderColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
    self.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0f;
}

@end

Then just drag out your UITextView in storyboard and set its class to BorderTextView