UITextField - capture return button event

Question

How can I detect when a user pressed \"return\" keyboard button while editing UITextField? I need to do this in order to dismiss keyboard when user pressed the \"return\" bu

Answer 1

You can now do this is storyboard using the sent event 'Did End On Exit'.

In your view controller subclass:

 @IBAction func textFieldDidEndOnExit(textField: UITextField) {
    textField.resignFirstResponder()
}

In your storyboard for the desired textfield:

Answer 2

Swift version using UITextFieldDelegate :

func textFieldShouldReturn(_ textField: UITextField) -> Bool {
    resignFirstResponder()
    return false
}

Answer 3

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return NO;
}

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Don't forget to set the delegate in storyboard...

Answer 4

SWIFT 3.0

override open func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()    
    textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(enterPressed), for: .editingDidEndOnExit)
}

in enterPressed() function put all behaviours you're after

func enterPressed(){
    //do something with typed text if needed
    textField.resignFirstResponder()
}

Answer 5

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)txtField 
{
[txtField resignFirstResponder];
return NO;
}

When enter button is clicked then this delegate method is called.you can capture return button from this delegate method.

Answer 6

Delegation is not required, here's a one-liner:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [textField addTarget:textField
                  action:@selector(resignFirstResponder)
        forControlEvents:UIControlEventEditingDidEndOnExit];
}

Sadly you can't directly do this in your Storyboard (you can't connect actions to the control that emits them in Storyboard), but you could do it via an intermediary action.