UITextView - setting font not working with iOS 6 on XCode 5
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I'm using storyboards for my UI. I was previously using XCode 4.6 and released on iOS 6. I have since updated to iOS 7 using XCode 5 and updated the Storyboard to work nicely with XCode 5. I have one issue though:
UITextView
doesn't want to display font changes within code. Text colour changes work fine. Any other property changes are fine. Font, not at all. I was using a custom font, so I checked different fonts with different sizes (i.e. systemFontOfSize:
) but that didn't work. The text view only shows the font that's set in the Storyboard. What could I be missing here? Are there any auto-layout constraints that mess with this sort of thing? I had a few issues with constraints during the migration, but as I said, the fonts work fine in iOS 7.
I guess it's something in the Storyboard that I'm missing, as if I create a UIViewController
and add a text view in code, it works fine.
I'd put up some code, but I'm not sure it'd help at all in this case.
Ios Solutions
Solution 1 - Ios
Even stranger, this only happens on iPhone, not iPad.
If you're setting the font in code and don't want an editable text view, do this:
textView.editable = YES;
textView.font = newFont;
textView.editable = NO;
Solution 2 - Ios
In my case, it is matter of 'selectable' property of UITextView.
So I checked 'selectable' property of UITextView in Storyboard Editor to set it YES
and later in viewWillAppear set this property to NO.
textview.text = @"some text";
textview.selectable = NO;
Solution 3 - Ios
The issue was caused by the editable
property being false in the Storyboard. I have absolutely no idea why this caused the font to remain unchanged - and only on iOS 6.
Solution 4 - Ios
For me it's work if you set the text of your UITextView and after set the font (same for color) :
_myTextView.text = @"text";
[_myTextView setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica Neue" size:18.0f]];
_myTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
Solution 5 - Ios
Thank you for all the answers guys. Issue is still present on iOS9. What i've found out, is that when you set "User Interaction Enabled = false" in the Interface Builder you can leave Editable and Selectable = true and user will not be able to edit a text view.
So, my solution is:
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Set User Interaction Enabled = False in IB
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Set Editable = True in IB
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Set Selectable = True in IB
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Configure your text view in whatever way you want.
Solution 6 - Ios
Code for swift:
textOutlet.editable = true
textOutlet.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
textOutlet.font = UIFont(name: "ArialMT", size: 20)
textOutlet.editable = false
Or if you change the text first it magically gets solved
textOutlet.text = "omg lol wtf"
textOutlet.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
textOutlet.font = UIFont(name: "ArialMT", size: 20)
Solution 7 - Ios
I found the font size was being ignored. This was resolved by ticking the checkbox called: Selectable (having selected the UITextView within the storyboard)
Solution 8 - Ios
This issue only happens when setting Selectable property to FALSE in the Interface Builder.
In case you are required to have the Editable and Selectable properties set to FALSE do it from the CODE and not in the Interface Builder.
Summing up, make Editable and Selectable properties = YES in the Interface Builder and then add the following code in case you need the properties to be FALSE:
_textView.editable = NO;
_textView.selectable = NO;
Hope this helps,
Solution 9 - Ios
Swift 3 category that worked for me:
extension UITextView {
func setFontAndUpdate(_ font: UIFont?) {
self.font = font
// Font doesn't update without text change
let text = self.text
self.text = nil
self.text = text
}
}
Solution 10 - Ios
In my case(Developing on Xcode 7.3, iOS 9),
The cause was the order of setting text and font-family/size, not the options of editable or selectable many answers tell there.(and I don't get any storyboard, xib on that Textview.)
If I input like
[myTextView setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Italic" size:20]];
myTextView.attributedText = mAttStr;
then the font's family and size are not changed, but else when I reverse those two step, it works. Setting text should be ahead of setting font's family/size.
Solution 11 - Ios
As mentioned by others:
textView.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
textView.isEditable = false
p.s. no need to first set isEditable
as true
since it's true
by default: a little shorter, a little nicer
Solution 12 - Ios
In my case, I solved by setting the new font in "viewDidLayoutSubviews".