Add image to UITextField in Xcode?

Iphone Problem Overview

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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?

Iphone Solutions

Solution 1 - Iphone

UITextField has a rightView property, if you have image like this- enter image description here 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"]];myTextField.rightViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
myTextField.rightView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"downArrow.png"]];

Solution 2 - Iphone

In Swift:

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

Solution 3 - Iphone

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"]];

Solution 4 - Iphone

Swift 3.0

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

Solution 5 - Iphone

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

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Solution 6 - Iphone

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

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..

Solution 7 - Iphone

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.

Solution 8 - Iphone

UITextField has the following property:

@property(nonatomic, retain) UIImage *background

example:

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

Solution 9 - Iphone

      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