How to change UITextfield placeholder color and fontsize using swift 2.0?

Question

How to change UITextfield placeholder & fontsize in SWIFT 2.0?

Answer 1

Updated for Swift 3

If you want to change the UITextField Placeholder color for Swift 3, use the following lines of code:

let yourTextFieldName = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 180, height: 21))
yourTextFieldName.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "placeholder text", attributes: [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white])