Creating a UITextView placeholder with different colors and fonts

Question

What's the best way to create a placeholder for a UITextView and the placeholder will have different colors and fonts. An example of what I want is:

_textView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(7.0, 35.0, 306.0, 90.0)];
_textView.text = @"This is a variable called foo.";

I want "foo" in the text to be bolder and darker in color.

How's this best done?

Answer 1

I have Simple way for this .

Add UILabel in UITextView below and set UITextView clearColor .and set your UILabel text as you required and set that text color same as your requirement color . and if you click on textview then hide that label and if you clear all textview then show your placeholder label.

See this Example

- (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextView *)theTextView
{
    if (![textView hasText])
    {
        lbl.hidden = NO;
    }
}

- (void) textViewDidChange:(UITextView *)textView
{
    if(![textView hasText])
    {
        lbl.hidden = NO;
    }
    else
    {
        lbl.hidden = YES;
    }
}   

I hope this idea is useful for you.