How to erase or clear UITextField?

Question

How can I make a text field box remove all content on the user's first keypress?

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string { if([tfieldDOB.text length] == 4) { tfieldDOB.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/",tfieldDOB.text]; } else if([tfieldDOB.text length]==7) { tfieldDOB.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/",tfieldDOB.text]; } return YES; }

after typing we can't clear it.@pe60t0

user3331589
– user3331589

2014-04-18 10:08:49 +00:00
Commented Apr 18, 2014 at 10:08 — user3331589
– user3331589, Commented Apr 18, 2014 at 10:08

Anbu.Karthik · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-19 06:34:45Z

12

change the textfield attribute clear button mode in appears while editing

or other choice just use the single line, where you need to add

yourtextfieldname.text=@""; //it is used for clear the textfield values

Swift

yourtextfieldname.text=""

or another way

 clearField =@"YES"; if([clearField isequaltostring:@"YES"]) //check this line in { tfieldDOB.text = @""; clearField =@"NO"; }

edited May 19, 2016 at 6:34

answered Apr 18, 2014 at 10:07

Anbu.Karthik

82.8k23 gold badges177 silver badges143 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

4 Comments

user3331589 Over a year ago

suppose i type 1990/11/11,and when i want to edit it then only last two digit edited ..i.e not completely edit..@anbu

user3331589 Over a year ago

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string { if([tfieldDOB.text length] == 4) { tfieldDOB.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/",tfieldDOB.text]; } else if([tfieldDOB.text length]==7) { tfieldDOB.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/",tfieldDOB.text]; } return YES; }

Anbu.Karthik Over a year ago

k where is your clearfield condition, where declare the clearfield value,

user3331589 Over a year ago

first of all tfieldDOB is empty,now i've typed my date of birth 1990/11/01,but suppose i want to edit it then i can edit only (1990/11/)..@anbu

Zen · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-18 10:42:44Z

Implement the text field's delegate method textFieldShouldBeginEditing: and set the text as empty string when the text field is just about to being editing.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{ [textField setText:@""]; return YES; }

Or you can set the property clearsOnBeginEditing of the textfield as

[textField setClearsOnBeginEditing:YES];

and it will clear the text when editing begins

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to erase or clear UITextField?

2 Answers 2

4 Comments

Comments

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

4 Comments

Comments

Linked

Related