Placeholder text not centered for UITextField created programmatically

Question

I am creating a UITextField programmatically and placing it inside a UIView. The font size is set to 15.0f (system font). But the placeholder that appears is not centered in

Answer 1

This does not work as expected on iOS7. On iOS7 you will have to override TextField class and

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect

method.

Like this:

- (void) drawPlaceholderInRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    [[UIColor blueColor] setFill];
    CGRect placeholderRect = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, (rect.size.height- self.font.pointSize)/2, rect.size.width, self.font.pointSize);
    [[self placeholder] drawInRect:placeholderRect withFont:self.font lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping alignment:self.textAlignment];
}

Works for both iOS7 and earlier versions.