How to set the border of UITextView to same as border color of UITextField

Question

By default UITextField has a light gray color as its border color. I want to set my UITextView to have the same border color as the UITextField.

I tried:

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Answer 1

I had this similar question for iOS 10, and wasn't able to find an answer, but this is what I found using the Digital Color Meter in Utilities and the iOS Simulator.

Swift 3 / iOS 10

let color = UIColor(red: 186/255, green: 186/255, blue: 186/255, alpha: 1.0).cgColor
myTextView.layer.borderColor = color
myTextView.layer.borderWidth = 0.5
myTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5

Answer 2

For generic solution through out the project. You can extern UIView class and add these methods to it.

-(void)setBorderColor:(UIColor *)borderColor{
    self.layer.borderColor = (borderColor).CGColor;
}
-(UIColor*)borderColor{
    return [UIColor colorWithCGColor: self.layer.borderColor];
}

//Getter and setter for border width
-(void)setBorderWidth:(NSInteger)borderWidth{
    self.layer.borderWidth = borderWidth;
}
-(NSInteger)borderWidth{
    return  (NSInteger)roundf((self.layer.borderWidth));
}

Its an extension to UIView. Just add these UIView+Designable.h/m files in your project and you can see the multiple more options in attribute inspector.

Answer 3

Try this code.

UIColor *borderColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:204.0/255.0 green:204.0/255.0 blue:204.0/255.0 alpha:1.0];

myTextView.layer.borderColor = borderColor.CGColor;
myTextView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
myTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0;

change borderWidth and cornerRadius value to get exact ui as UITextField.

Answer 4

Try this code for Swift

let borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor.Cgcolor()

myTextView.layer.borderColor = borderColor.CGColor;
myTextView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0;
myTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0;

Answer 5

This Swift code also works for setting same border color, width & radius as UITextField:

myTextView.layer.borderColor = UIColor(red: 0.9, green: 0.9, blue: 0.9, alpha: 1.0).CGColor
myTextView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
myTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5

Answer 6

swift 4.x/ios11.

I did another measure in PSD using simulator. I can confirm radius is 0.5 and color is 0.8, as 205/255 = 0.8 (or "cdcdcd" in HEX, as PSD suggests, BUT width must be 0.5. (I attached a PSD where You can compare radius of edit field (UITExtField) AND radius applied to a UITextView.

So its correct:

    let borderGray = UIColor(red: 0.8, green: 0.8, blue: 0.8, alpha: 1)
    self.TxtV.layer.borderColor = borderGray.cgColor
    self.TxtV.layer.borderWidth = 0.5
    self.TxtV.layer.cornerRadius = 5

Note: I tried to get color from a TextField already on View, but I got:

if let borderGray = self.cellPhoneTxt.layer.borderColor{ let BG = UIColor(cgColor: borderGray)

    print(BG)
    var red: CGFloat = 0
    var green: CGFloat = 0
    var blue: CGFloat = 0
    var alpha: CGFloat = 0
    BG.getRed(&red, green: &green, blue: &blue, alpha: &alpha)
    print(red, green, blue, alpha)

}

but I got in console:

kCGColorSpaceModelRGB 0 0 0 1

0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0

so it seems Apple is using full black AND some Alpha.