How to add space at start of UITextField - iphone

Question

I am creating an app that contain multiple UITextField. In the textField i have sated border type to none and background image. It display fine, But now my text is started from the lest border which does not look good, like this
How can i add space at the start of the textfield?

Answer 1

Try this
UILabel * leftView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,0,7,26)];
leftView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
textField.leftView = leftView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;

Answer 2

Here's #Kalpesh's answer in Swift 3.x:
let leftView = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(10, 0.0, 7, 26))
leftView.backgroundColor = .clearColor()
customField.leftView = leftView
customField.leftViewMode = .Always
customField.contentVerticalAlignment = .Center
Swift 4.x
let leftView = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 10, y: 0, width: 7, height: 26))
leftView.backgroundColor =.clear
customField.leftView = leftView
customField.leftViewMode = .always
customField.contentVerticalAlignment = .center

Answer 3

You should subclass UITextField and override drawText function.
check this for help
OR
You can do following:
UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 15, height_of_textfiled)];
textField.leftView = paddingView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

Answer 4

Objective c
For padding only placeholder this code will work
usernameTF.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:#" Your text"];
For padding both placeholder and text of the UITextField this below code will work
usernameTF.layer.sublayerTransform = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(40, 0, 30);
Swift 3.0
For padding only placeholder this code will work
yourTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: " YourText")
For padding both placeholder and text of the UITextField this below code will work
usernameTF.layer.sublayerTransform = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(40, 0, 30)

Answer 5

You can subclass UITextField and override textRectForBounds and editingRectForBounds.
For example,
- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + 10, bounds.origin.y + 5, bounds.size.width - 20, bounds.size.height - 10);
}
- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + 10, bounds.origin.y + 5, bounds.size.width - 20, bounds.size.height - 10);
}

Answer 6

Swift 4
yourTextField.layer.sublayerTransform = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(10, 0, 10)

Answer 7

You can put the textfield background image in an image view,above the imageview put your textfield a space left.

Answer 8

-(void)textField:(UITextField *) textField didBeginEditing {
if ([textField.text isEqualToString:#""] || textField.text == NULL) {
textField.text = #" ";
}
}