dismiss keyboard when the textfield does not have IBOutlet - ios

Question

How can I dismiss the keyboard in iOS when the textfield does not have an IBOutlet to the view controller? My case is a UITableView with dynamic prototype cells. One of those cells contains a UITextField, however I cannot add an IBOutlet because outlets are not allowed in repeating content.
So how can I achieve to dismiss the keyboard when textfield does not have outlet?

Answer 1

Add any one method in your ViewController.m file :
Choice -1
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
Choice -2
UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:#selector(resignFieds)];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
- (void)resignFieds {
//choice - 1 , check the all subviews and resign textfield
for (UIView * txt in self.view.subviews){
if ([txt isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]] && [txt isFirstResponder]) {
[txt resignFirstResponder];
}
else
{
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
}
//choice 2 , no need to check any subviews ,
[self.view endEditing:YES];
Note : use any one choice
}

Answer 2

You can use this:
[view endEditing:YES];

Answer 3

try these..
UITapGestureRecognizer * tap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]initWithTarget:self action:#selector(taped:)];
[tap setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];
[self.view addGestureRecognizer:tap];
-(void)taped:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)gesture
{
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
OR
you can do these also..
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
if (![[touch view] isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
{
[self.view endEditing:YES];
}
[super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}
i hope it helps..

Answer 4

Try this :-
In Swift:-
UIApplication.sharedApplication().sendAction(Selector("resignFirstResponder"), to: nil, from: nil, forEvent: nil)
In Objective-C:-
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:#selector(resignFirstResponder) to:nil from:nil forEvent:nil];
Explanation:-
We can send an action to the first responder by calling sendAction:to:from:forEvent on the UIApplication singleton and passing nil as the target and in your case your first responder is your textfield.

Answer 5

I assume that you’ve created custom dynamic prototype cell which have UITextField in it.
No need to have IBOutlet of UITextField in your ViewController class where you have added UITableView.
Create Custom TableViewCell Class, then create IBOutlet of UITextField in Custom TableViewCell Class.
#interface SimpleTableViewCell : UITableViewCell
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *simpleTxtField;
#end
Set TableViewCell Class to Custom TableViewCell class say “SimpleTableViewCell”. by selecting TableViewCell and selecting Identity Inspector icon in Right side pane in Xcode.
in your ViewController class confirm to UITextField Delegate. like this.
#interface ViewController () <UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate>
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableView *simpleTableView;
#end
implement UITextField delegate Method.
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return YES;
}
then in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath method of UITableView Datasource set your Custom TableViewCell’s (SimpleTableViewCell) TextField Delegate to self.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
SimpleTableViewCell *cell = [self.simpleTableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"simpleCell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.simpleTxtField.delegate = self;
return cell;
}
and whenever you select TextField of Cell a Keyboard will display and when you click return key a TextField Delegate method will get call and Keyboard will get dismiss.
Hope this will help.