iPhone - Problem with UITextView

Question

This is probably an easy thing to do, but I just can\'t figure it out - how do I end editing athe textview? how can I get the keyboard to disappear? or do I have to click ou

Answer 1

One way to end editing, tapping outside the textView, is not entirely trivial. Selecting other text views or text fields or activating a navigation control will trigger...

- (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView

...on whatever object you've designated as the textView's delegate. You can trigger this yourself by calling...

- (BOOL)endEditing:(BOOL)force

...on the view that contains your text field.

Suppose I have a UITextView inside a UITableViewCell (inside a UITable). I want to enable editing to end by tapping the table. I could do this:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(didTapTable)];
    [[self tableView] addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];
    [tapRecognizer release];
}

- (void)didTapTable
{
    [[self tableView] endEditing:YES];
}

Now whenever I tap my table, I end editing. And, as others have said, in textViewDidEndEditing I should be sure to call [textView resignFirstResponder];