edwardean / sztextview

A drop-in UITextView replacement which gives you: a placeholder.

SZTextView

A drop-in UITextView replacement which gives you: a placeholder.
Technically it differs from other solutions in that it tries to work like UITextField's private _placeholderLabel so you should not suffer ugly glitches like jumping text views or loads of custom drawing code.

Requirements

Your iOS project. (Tested on iOS versions 5.0 and 6.1)

Note: This is ARC-enabled code. You'll need Xcode 4.2 and OS X 10.6, at least.

Installation

The easiest way would be to clone this repo and add the project to your Xcode workspace.
Or use CocoaPods.

Usage

SZTextView *textView = [SZTextView new];
self.textView.placeholder = @"Enter lorem ipsum here";
self.textView.placeholderTextColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
self.textView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" size:18.0];

A simple demo is included.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Published under the MIT license.

I'd be glad to know if anybody except me actually uses this. So please drop me a message telling me where you're using SZTextView. Thanks.