White Text in UITextField = Invisible text in iPhone copy/paste select. Fix?

Question

If I have white text in my UITextField, the selection window (when selecting text) is invisible because the background on the little window is also white.

Any way to

Answer 1

One solution that I've employed for this issue is to change the text color to a that will show up in the loupe (but may not look as good in the overall view) while editing and then changing it back to the better display color when finished editing.

It behaves as if you were highlighting the text of the field from a visual standpoint and allows you to use your preferred color for the display of the entered data when not editing.

Set the color to a highlight color that will have enough contrast in the loupe on didBeginEditing, then change it back on didEndEditing.

Just one other possible approach and one I've used in a couple of apps.

eg.

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
  textField.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:116.0/255.0 green:160.0/255.0 blue:246.0/255.0 alpha:1.0];
}

- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
  textField.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:224.0/255.0 green:224.0/255.0 blue:224.0/255.0 alpha:1.0];
}