iPhone UITextField background color

Question

I am unable to control the background color of a UITextField with a borderStyle= UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect. With this border style the ba

Answer 1

A dump of the view hierarchy reveals that the UITextField has a single subview of type UITextFieldRoundedRectBackgroundView, which in turn has 12 UIImageViews.

An older article by Erica Sadun shows an additional UILabel, which Apple apparently removed in later versions of the SDK.

Fiddling with the UIImageViews doesn't change much.

So the answer is: there's probably no way to change the background color.