Placeholder text in UITextView iOS
As we all know UITextView does not have a Placeholder unlike a UITextField. So it is really a painful job to have a placeholder text in a UITextView. I got stuck on the same issue and did some work around. This trick will make you think that you are actually having a placeholder text inside a UITextView. So here we go: 1. Place a UILabel on nib (xib) file at the position where you want UITextView. 2. Now set text what you want on the placeholder and change it text color to lightGraycolor. 3. Take a UITextView and place it above the UILabel and set its background color to clearcolor. 4. It will appear as a placeholder inside UITextView. 5. Set delegates of UITextView as follows: In Header file: #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface LoginViewController : UIViewController < UITextViewDelegate > @end In Implementation file: - ( void )viewDidLoad { [ super viewDidLoad ]; [myTextView setDelegate:self]; } 6. Take textViewDidChange delega