How to change the text color of text input in react native?

Question

The placeholder of the input is green but I want also make the green text input (when I am typing the text text color shows black which is not visible enough in my UI). How can I make it Green as well?

Solution 1

add color: 'green'; in your TextInput style will change the color

<TextInput style={styles.textInput} />

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
 textInput: {
  color: 'green',
 },
});`

in native-base you will need to take care also of theming see docs

Solution 2

Simply create a style for your input and set color as green

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    textInputStyle: {
    color: 'green',
    }
});

and assign it to your textInput

<TextInput 
    style={styles.textInputStyle}
    placeholderTextColor='green'
    underlineColorAndroid='green' />

Solution 3

If you want to change the TextInput colour add a color in styles.

below is the example give you the TextInput color as blue:

export default class UselessTextInput extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { text: 'Useless Placeholder' };
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <TextInput
        style=
        {{
          height: 40, borderColor: 'gray', borderWidth: 1, color : "blue"
        }}
        onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({text})}
        value={this.state.text}
      />
    );
  }
}

Solution 4

after trying many different solutions, I implemented a custom TextInput component where I placed a Text component that changes the color as a background and a TextInput over it that has a transparent font color. I hope this issue can be fixed soon in a better way.

updateText(v) {
  const { onChange } = this.props;
  this.setState({ text: v});
  onChange(v);
}
render() {
  const { changeColor } = this.props;
  const { text } = this.state;
  return  <View style={{ position: 'relative', flex: 1 }}>
            <Text style={ [ { flex: 1, position: 'absolute', zIndex: 1 }, changeColor? { color: red } : null ]}>
              {text}
            </Text>
            <RTextInput
              onChangeText={v => this.updateText(v)}
              style={[{ flex: 1, color: 'transparent', zIndex: 100 }]}
              {...props}
            />
          </View>
}

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Comments

[bennygenel]

Please provide some code to show what you tried so far. Check how to ask to learn how you can ask a good question. Check style prop for TextInput on how to customize your input.

[Vahid Boreiri]

is your problem solved?

[Wanda Ichsanul Isra]

Are you using native base?

[sophin]

Just in case if anyone trying to change the colour of the placeholder. To change color of the placeholder adds props called placeholderTextColor = "grey".

[Mohamed Khalil]

did you changed the theme colors?

[Arham Anees]

I had to use linear gradient text component instead of simple text. this saved my day!