Placeholder in UITextView

And the stack overflow url is :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1328638/placeholder-in-uitextview Easy way, just create placeholder text in UITextView by using the following UITextViewDelegate methods:

(void)textViewDidBeginEditing:(UITextView *)textView { if ([textView.text isEqualToString:@“placeholder text here…“]) {

 textView.text = @"";
 textView.textColor = [UIColor blackColor]; //optional

} [textView becomeFirstResponder]; }

(void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)textView { if ([textView.text isEqualToString:@““]) {

textView.text = @"placeholder text here...";
textView.textColor = [UIColor lightTextColor]; //optional

} [textView resignFirstResponder]; } just remember to set myUITextView with the exact text on creation e.g.

UITextView *myUITextView = [[UITextView alloc] init]; myUITextView.delegate = self; myUITextView.text = @“placeholder text here…“; myUITextView.textColor = [UIColor lightTextColor]; //optional and make the parent class a UITextView delegate before including these methods e.g.
@interface MyClass () @end