How to change the background color of UIStackView?

Question

Note that in modern iOS you CAN SET THE BACKGROUND COLOR NORMALLY.

historic question:

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I tried to change the UIStackView background from clear to white in Storyboard inspector, but when simulating, the background color of the stack view still has a clear color.
How can I change the background color of a UIStackView?

Answer 1

You can't do this – UIStackView is a non-drawing view, meaning that drawRect() is never called and its background color is ignored. If you desperately want a background color, consider placing the stack view inside another UIView and giving that view a background color.

Reference from HERE.

EDIT:

You can add a subView to UIStackView as mentioned HERE or in this answer (below) and assign a color to it. Check out below extension for that:

extension UIStackView {
    func addBackground(color: UIColor) {
        let subView = UIView(frame: bounds)
        subView.backgroundColor = color
        subView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
        insertSubview(subView, at: 0)
    }
}

And you can use it like:

stackView.addBackground(color: .red)