Add image to UITextField in Xcode?

Question

I need to implement the concept of dropdown in Xcode.

For that purpose, I'm using a UIPickerview.

This pickerView loads when a textfield is tapped (on textFieldDidBeginEditing:)event.

Question:

Is there a way, that I can add a image to TextField?

The image is like an arrow mark by which user can understand that a dropdown appears when textfield is tapped .How can I make it?

Answer 1

UITextField has a rightView property, if you have image like this-

then You can easly set ImageView object to rightView:

UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] init];

myTextField.rightViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
myTextField.rightView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"downArrow.png"]];

Answer 2

In Swift:

textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewMode.Always
textField.leftView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "imageName"))

Answer 3

You can put the UIImageView to the left of your UITextField.

UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(96, 40, 130, 20)];
[textField setLeftViewMode:UITextFieldViewModeAlways];
textField.leftView= [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"searchIccon.png"]];

Answer 4

Swift 3.0

txtField.rightViewMode = .always
txtField.rightView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "selectdrop"))

Answer 5

To add proper margins / paddings between image and textfield, try this below code. Expanding on @King-Wizard's answer.

Here the height of my TextField is 44 Check the attached image for reference.

Swift Version:

emailTF.leftViewMode = .Always
let emailImgContainer = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(emailTF.frame.origin.x, emailTF.frame.origin.y, 40.0, 30.0))
let emailImView = UIImageView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 25.0, 25.0))
emailImView.image = UIImage(named: "image1")
emailImView.center = emailImgContainer.center
emailImgContainer.addSubview(emailImView)
emailTF.leftView = emailImgContainer

Answer 6

Step 1: Add this class to your project and add it to your textFiled's class in identity inspector,

class MyCustomTextField: UITextField {

    @IBInspectable var inset: CGFloat = 0

    @IBInspectable var leftImage: String = String(){
        didSet{
            leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewMode.Always
            leftView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: leftImage))
        }
    }

    override func textRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return CGRectInset(bounds, inset, inset)
    }

    override func editingRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return textRectForBounds(bounds)
    }

    override func leftViewRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return CGRectInset(CGRectMake(0, 2, 40, 40), 10, 10) //Change frame according to your needs
    }
}

Step 2: Set text insets and left image from interface builder.

Step 3: Enjoy.

Answer 7

hey mate you want dropdown view then see this custom dropdown view ..

1. http://code.google.com/p/dropdowndemo/downloads/list
2. http://ameyashetti.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/drop-down-demo/

and for this requirement use this code

UITextField *txtstate =[[UITextField alloc]init]; [txtstate setFrame:CGRectMake(10, 30,170, 30)]; 
txtstate.delegate=self; 

txtstate.text=@"Fruits"; 

txtstate.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleLine; 

txtstate.background = [UIImage imageNamed:@"dropdownbtn.png"]; 

[txtstate setAutocorrectionType:UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo]; 
[self.view addSubview:txtstate];

and set your textfield border style none..

Answer 8

UITextField has the following property:

@property(nonatomic, retain) UIImage *background

example:

UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] init];
myTextField.background = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"];

Answer 9

      emailTextField.leftViewMode = .alway
    let emailImgContainer = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 30, height: 25))
    let emailImg = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 25, height: 25))
    emailImg.image = UIImage(named: "SomeIMG")
    emailImgContainer.addSubview(emailImg)
    emailTextField.leftView = emailImgContainer

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