I made this UITextView and everything is perfect except the fact that when the user taps it, the keyboard opens up. How can I disable that "editing(?)" option?
Here's the code:
- (void)loadAboutStable {
UITextView *aboutStable = [[UITextView alloc] init];
[aboutStable setText:#"Please check Your network connection"];
[self addSubview:aboutStable];}
[aboutStable setUserInteractionEnabled:NO] should do it
and if you still need scrolling:
aboutStable.editable = NO;
aboutStable.editable = NO;
should work
You can do it with XIB too by UnCheck of the editable checkbox as given in below screen :
and also do it by code :
textViewObject.editable = false
Select the UITextView in the storyboard
Choose the Property Inspector and under the Behavior section uncheck "Editable"
----Xcode version 5.0
yourTextView.editable = NO;
It will make your text View not editable. It can be called from anywhere if you have made the property of you text view in .h file like this
#property (nonatomic, strong) UITextView *youTextView;
SWIFT 2.0 & XCODE 7.0 example for solution provided by #James Webster
In Main.storyboard (default), select your TextView
Go to the Attribute Inspector of the TextView
Uncheck "User Interaction Enabled"
Swift 4 version:
aboutStable.isEditable = false
In Swift 2.0 it has to be false not NO.
theClues.selectable = false
I had a problem with making my clues appear in white letters unless I checked the selectable button on the storyboard for the textview. However, leaving "Selectable" checked and adding the line above works.
to really destroy any interactivity ;)
descriptionText.isSelectable = false;
descriptionText.isEditable = false;
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I have on OpenGL window that is also used for text input when a text element is clicked in our engine
#interface MyGLView : UIView <UIKeyInput, UITextInput, UITextInputTraits>
Whenever this view becomes first responder, it shows the suggestion bar above the keyboard. On many devices, this covers a very large portion of the screen and makes it hard to lay out the UI.
I have read that the following code is supposed to hide this suggestion bar, but nothing I change seems to have any affect
self.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
self.inputAssistantItem.leadingBarButtonGroups = #[];
self.inputAssistantItem.trailingBarButtonGroups = #[];
I have tried putting this in the init for the view as well as in becomeFirstResponder method, but both don't seem to matter. What is the proper way to do this?
I think you're missing spellCheckingType!
This works for me:
self.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
self.spellCheckingType = UITextSpellCheckingTypeNo;
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.
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;
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;
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.
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];
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:
Set User Interaction Enabled = False in IB
Set Editable = True in IB
Set Selectable = True in IB
Configure your text view in whatever way you want.
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)
I found the font size was being ignored. This was resolved by ticking the checkbox called: Selectable (having selected the UITextView within the storyboard)
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,
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
}
}
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.
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
In my case, I solved by setting the new font in "viewDidLayoutSubviews".
I have a UITextView which is managed via Interface Builder. As data detection I have "Links" checked. In iOS 6 everything is working fine and links are highlighted and are clickable. In iOS 7 though, all links remain just plain text. The editable and selectable checkboxes are unchecked.
What may be of concern is that the UITextView is a subview of a container view which is again inside a UIScrollView.
It seems that in iOS 7 link detection only works if the UITextView is selectable. So making my UITextView not selectable stopped the the link detection from working.
I also tested this in iOS 6 and I can confirm that in iOS 6 the link detection works fine even with the UITextView not being selectable.
I was having some problems with phone number detection today. It seemed like the UITextView would retain old phone numbers and keep text highlighted after I had set the text to something else.
I found that if I setText:nil before setting the text to the new string, it would reset the textview, and phone numbers would highlight as normal. I'm wondering if this is some kind of bug with UITextView in iOS 7.0
Either way, this did work for me.
When iOS7 first came out this plagued me and I found an answer in this thread (setting the text attribute of the UITextView to nil before setting the actual value did the trick). Then suddenly, the problem (for me it was the entire string being highlighted as a link) cropped back up (assumedly due to an iOS update).
What finally did the trick for me was to stop using the text attribute and set the attributedText. Once I did this, the need for setting fonts/scrolling/selectable/editable/etc. programmatically, disappeared. I defined my UITextView in IB, set the values as I wanted (not scrollable, not editable, selectable, detecting links and phone numbers) and then built an attributed string and set:
myUITextView.attributedString = myAttributedString;
And suddenly everything worked as expected. Hope this helps someone else down the road.
I had the same issue and disabling scrolling on the UITextView activates the link detection on load rather than only working once the user has interacted with the textview. The UITextView also had to be selectable and non-editable.
detailTextView.scrollEnabled = NO;
detailTextView.editable = NO;
detailTextView.selectable = YES;
Being selectable or having scroll enabled isn't necessary on iOS6.
Another thing to check is that userinteraction is enabled on the cell and content view of the cell, otherwise the link won't be clickable.
Check These Lines must be added to use data detector property of textview in UItableView cell.
txtvwMsgText.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
txtvwMsgText.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
txtvwMsgText.scrollEnabled = NO;
txtvwMsgText.editable = NO;
txtvwMsgText.selectable = YES;
You should check out NSDataDetector.
You can use this to find and deal with different data (links, phone numbers and more). Have a look on this site:
http://nshipster.com/nsdatadetector/
You can also use the dataDetectorTypes property of UITextView to set what you want to detect in code. May just be a storyboard transition problem for you.
textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
Be aware, that your textview will only recognize the links if not editable!
Here is a nice tutorial on how to make an editable UITextView with `link detection``
Editable UITextView with link detecion
I've not experienced any problems with that solution since now.
The trick is a GestureRecognizer forwaring touches and enabling/disabling the editing.
You could apply the same thing with the selectable / not selectable issue on iOS7
After few tests, I found solution.
If you want links active and you don't want selection enabled, you need to edit gestureRecognizers.
For example - there are 3 LongPressGestureRecognizers. One for click on link (minimumPressDuration = 0.12), second for zoom in editable mode (minimumPressDuration = 0.5), third for selection (minimumPressDuration = 0.8). This solution removes LongPressGestureRecognizer for selecting and second for zooming in editing mode.
NSArray *textViewGestureRecognizers = self.captionTextView.gestureRecognizers;
NSMutableArray *mutableArrayOfGestureRecognizers = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (UIGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer in textViewGestureRecognizers) {
if (![gestureRecognizer isKindOfClass:[UILongPressGestureRecognizer class]]) {
[mutableArrayOfGestureRecognizers addObject:gestureRecognizer];
} else {
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPressGestureRecognizer = (UILongPressGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;
if (longPressGestureRecognizer.minimumPressDuration < 0.3) {
[mutableArrayOfGestureRecognizers addObject:gestureRecognizer];
}
}
}
self.captionTextView.gestureRecognizers = mutableArrayOfGestureRecognizers;
Tested on iOS 9, but it should work on all versions (iOS 7, 8, 9).
I hope it helps! :)
I've found the trick, this works in iOS 7!
You have to set the UITextView selectable in your xib or programmatically
self.yourTextView.selectable = YES;
and then you have to disable scrolls and enable again after set your text.
self.yourTextView.scrollEnabled = NO;
[self.yourTextView setText:contentString];
self.yourTextView.scrollEnabled = YES;
So using a UITextView keeping it enabled, selectable, not scrollable & links detectable is not as simple as it seems. I encountered this in iOS 8. So my solution was to do something like this in viewDidLoad and then set editable property to NO when textBox editing is done(usually would be a method like doneIsTapped). The trick here is to set editable property to NO after setting text value to textview is completed. This will enable links in the UITextview.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.txtViewComment.editable = YES;
self.txtViewComment.selectable = YES;
self.txtViewComment.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
self.txtViewComment.scrollEnabled = NO;
}
and
- (IBAction)doneIsTapped:(id)sender
{
self.txtViewComment.text = #"set text what ever you want";
self.txtViewComment.editable = NO;
}
this made the links enabled in textview. Also I would recommend not to use story board at this time(or until apple fixes this problem) and just use code to avoid any unnecessary confusion. Hope this help.
Deactivating UITextViews scrolling ability did the trick for me in a similar setup.
Changing the Tint color to other color actually works.
However if selectable enable the tint will also be the same color.
Make the scrolling property of UITextView to No. it will work...
Self.textView.ScrollingEnable = NO;
None of the above worked for me, instead I did this:
[self.textView setDataDetectorTypes:UIDataDetectorTypeNone];
[self.textView.setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[self.textView setDataDetectorTypes:UIDataDetectorTypeNone];
I did this with my textview that was supposed to detect all types, and which had non detected color set to white. You can change the code to represent your proper color and link types to detect.
While this thread is old, I didn’t see an answer that worked for me with Swift, so here goes for Swift 2.2
textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypes.Link
textView.selectable = true
This workaround works for me:
textView.selectable = YES;
textView.delegate = self;
- (void) textViewDidChangeSelection:(UITextView *)textView;
{
NSRange range = NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0.0);
if ( range.length && !NSEqualRanges(range, textView.selectedRange) ) {
textView.selectedRange = range;
}
}
If you are adding UITextview programmatically just add below lines:
_textView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
_textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
_textView.scrollEnabled = NO;
_textView.editable = NO;
This worked for me.
In my IPad Application i am using TextView only for Text Displaying.As i need to display a Larger Text Thats Why i am using UITextview due to its Scrolling Property instead of using UILabel.
In my application i do not need to edit Text in UITextview ,but problem for me is that when i click on Textview for scrolling the keyboard appear its hide my textview so i want that my keyboard is never appear on click event.i make a search but not find any Suitable solution.Any help will be appriated.Thanx
NEW ANSWER (previous one was not working properly)
OK so since that is not working because it disables scrolling also, you should try to:
Implement UITextFieldDelegate protocol
In your view controller add the text
#interface YourViewController () <UITextViewDelegate>
In viewDidLoad set yourself as a delegate:
yourUITextView.delegate = self;
Implement the delegate method below:
- (BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView
{
return NO;
}
When the textview is about to edit the text, this method will be called automatically. It returns no, so the editing won't start.
It is very important that you undo the changes from the previous answers: Do not set the editable field to NO
I tried it and it's working. Hope it helps!
OLD ANSWER
when you declare the variable, or in your viewdidload method, set the editable property to NO:
yourUITextView.editable = NO;
or
[yourUITextView setEditable:NO]
That should prevent the keyboard from appearing.
Go to .XIB file and you can uncheck behavior editable or programmatically
textView.editable = NO;
How to hide/disable keyboard ,if the textview editing is enabled.
I only want to that user can only be able to select the text and can't be allowed for entering text.
Because selected text will be converted in to image for move animation.
User will not be allowed for entering any text in textview so that's why keyboard should be hidden or disable ,he will be allowed only for text selection.
uitextview.editable = NO; or set checkmark in IB. It will allow to select text with options - Copy and Select All without keyboard appearing. Tap on the word and hold to select text.
ok just uncheck the behavior of you UItextview in .xib file.
Something to try it the 'editable' setting doesn't work out is to create a UIView that's hidden and out of the way somewhere and assign it as the inputView for the text view. If that property is non-nil, the view it contains will be shown instead of the keyboard.
Such as:
self.textView.inputView = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)] autorelease];
try this
yourtextview.UserinterationEnable=No;
This will make the keyboard disappear:
[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow] endEditing:YES];
This what you want to do?