Hiding the Keyboard when losing focus on a UITextView

Question

So I have a UITextView that I\'m using to allow the user to submit some text.

My problem is, I can\'t seem to figure out how to allow the user to \'Cancel\' by tappi

Answer 1

Here is the swift 3 code

override func touchesBegan(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    if let touch = touches.first {
        if textField.isFirstResponder && touch.view != textField {
            textField.resignFirstResponder()
        }
    }
    super.touchesBegan(touches, with: event)
}

Answer 2

This is an old post, but I was implementing this solution when i found something a lot simpler (maybe it wasn't available back then).

[self.myTextView endEditing:YES];

I'm using a UITableView, so I put this line on the didSelectRowAtIndexPath: method. So far, so good...

Answer 3

Here is a better solution that does not depend upon an outlet and is going to work with any number of UITextField objects in your controller.

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

    UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];

    if (![[touch view] isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
        [self.view endEditing:YES];
    }
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

Answer 4

My way to do it...

• Add a reference to the TextView in the @interface of your ViewController:

  @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextView *yourTextView;
  

• Override this method in the @implementation of your ViewController:

  - (void)scrollViewWillBeginDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
  {
      if ([self.yourTextView isFirstResponder]) {
        [self.yourTextView resignFirstResponder];
      }
  }