what is this UI element ?

[Tex-Twil]

Hello,
how can I color the background of a word in the UITextField just as in the "To:" field of the Mail App:




Thanks,
Tex

[BrianSlick]

There isn't anything standard to do that. There's probably something 3rd-party if you poke around.

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by Tex-Twil

Hello,
how can I color the background of a word in the UITextField just as in the "To:" field of the Mail App:




Thanks,
Tex

To get that effect, I'd probably layer a UIImageView under the text field.

You could make the image view use a stretchable image so it would resize to the text width automatically. Take a look at the UIImage class method resizableImageWithCapInsets. That method will take a regular UIImage as input, and return an image that will resize to any size, keeping the corners unmodified, but filling in the middle with a solid color.

[Tex-Twil]

Originally Posted by Duncan C

To get that effect, I'd probably layer a UIImageView under the text field.

You could make the image view use a stretchable image so it would resize to the text width automatically. Take a look at the UIImage class method resizableImageWithCapInsets. That method will take a regular UIImage as input, and return an image that will resize to any size, keeping the corners unmodified, but filling in the middle with a solid color.

ok I will try that. cheers