How do I create a transparent UITextField?

Question

On my 1) UIView one (2) UIImageView will be on this (3) UITextView.

This UITextView must be Transparent and we have to view the imageView.

How can I do this?

Solution 1

Objective-C

If you only want to make the background (rather than the whole UITextView) transparent, I believe you should be do this via the backgroundColor property it inherits from UIView.

As such...

[yourTextView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

...should hopefully do the trick.

If however, you want to make the whole UITextView transparent, the alpha property @taskinoor mentions is perfect.

Solution 2

You can set the alpha of text view to any desired value.

myTextView.alpha = 0.5;    // 50% transparent

Solution 3

I use in this way:

[textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; //clear background
[textField setBorderStyle:UITextBorderStyleNone]; //clear borders

Solution 4

Swift 4 and higher

For Swift 4 use this:

yourTextView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

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Comments

[John Parker]

Won't the alpha property affect everything (text included)? Then again, perhaps that's what he wants. (Hard to tell from the question.)

[taskinoor]

Ya, text also be changed. It guess that's what he is looking for. Otherwise I have misunderstood the question.

[good guy]

hi Taskinoor i am looking for UITextView must be Transparent without effecting the Text on it,

[taskinoor]

@Nandakishore, try the answer of middaparka then. You can create UIColor with specific alpha value by using UIColor colorWithRed:(CGFloat)red green:(CGFloat)green blue:(CGFloat)blue alpha:(CGFloat)alpha method.