How to dismiss number pad keyboard by tapping anywhere

Question

I\'d like to know the simplest code to dismiss the number pad keyboard when tapping anywhere outside the number pad. It\'s a simple application to input a number inside a te

Answer 1

Lots of answers here but still had to struggle to figure it out using XCode 5. Read this: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/EventHandling/Conceptual/EventHandlingiPhoneOS/GestureRecognizer_basics/GestureRecognizer_basics.html

Add a Tap Gesture Recognizer to your UIScrollView. Set its delegate to be the viewcontroller.

Add this method:

- (IBAction)tappedSomewhere:(id)sender {
    [self.view endEditing:YES];
}

to your UIScrollView implementation code and associate it to the Tap Gesture Recognizer by control click and dragging to the implementation code.

Worked for me.