TextField stroke border text with SwiftUI

Question

Here is what I've done, but the problem is with Text background. It can be implemented on white background by setting the Text's background to white as well, but in case of image background it stays "strikedthrough". You can find a source code below where I tried to make it as close to the result as possible. How it could be resolved?

struct CustomTextField: View {
    let placeholder: String
    @Binding var text: String

    var body: some View {
        TextField("", text: $text)
            .placeholder(when: $text.wrappedValue.isEmpty,
                         alignment: .leading,
                         placeholder: {
                Text(placeholder)
                    .foregroundColor(.gray)
                    .font(.system(size: 20))
                    .padding(.leading, 15)
            })
            .foregroundColor(.gray)
            .font(.system(size: 20))
            .padding(EdgeInsets(top: 15, leading: 10, bottom: 15, trailing: 10))
            .background {
                ZStack {
                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 5)
                        .stroke(.gray, lineWidth: 1)
                    Text(placeholder)
                        .foregroundColor(.gray)
                        .padding(2)
                        .font(.caption)
                        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity,
                               maxHeight: .infinity,
                               alignment: .topLeading)
                        .offset(x: 20, y: -10)
                }
            }
    }
}

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ChrisR · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-09 12:47:56Z

6

Here is a solution using .trim on two RoundedRectangles based on the length of the label text, which should give you the result you want:

struct CustomTextField: View {
    let placeholder: String
    @Binding var text: String

    @State private var width = CGFloat.zero
    @State private var labelWidth = CGFloat.zero

    var body: some View {
        TextField(placeholder, text: $text)
            .foregroundColor(.gray)
            .font(.system(size: 20))
            .padding(EdgeInsets(top: 15, leading: 10, bottom: 15, trailing: 10))
            .background {
                ZStack {
                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 5)
                        .trim(from: 0, to: 0.55)
                        .stroke(.gray, lineWidth: 1)
                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 5)
                        .trim(from: 0.565 + (0.44 * (labelWidth / width)), to: 1)
                        .stroke(.gray, lineWidth: 1)
                    Text(placeholder)
                        .foregroundColor(.gray)
                        .overlay( GeometryReader { geo in Color.clear.onAppear { labelWidth = geo.size.width }})
                        .padding(2)
                        .font(.caption)
                        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity,
                               maxHeight: .infinity,
                               alignment: .topLeading)
                        .offset(x: 20, y: -10)

                }
            }
            .overlay( GeometryReader { geo in Color.clear.onAppear { width = geo.size.width }})
            .onChange(of: width) { _ in
                print("Width: ", width)
            }
            .onChange(of: labelWidth) { _ in
                print("labelWidth: ", labelWidth)
            }

        
   }
}

answered Mar 9, 2022 at 12:47

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Chris Hefferman Over a year ago

Hey, this is a long shot - but this doesn't size dynamically based on the size of the text field and therefore get overlap depending on what screen this is being shown on. For example, on an iPhone 15 Pro, this looks perfect - however if I run it on an iPad mini, then the trim's "to" points aren't lining up to the text. Do you have any suggestions on how to approach this as I've exhausted my knowledge.

Vishweshwaran · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-09 11:24:44Z

Here is my version of the TextField.

struct TextInputField: View {
    let placeHolder: String
    @Binding var textValue: String
    
    var body: some View {
        ZStack(alignment: .leading) {
            Text(placeHolder)
                .foregroundColor(Color(.placeholderText))
                .offset(y: textValue.isEmpty ? 0 : -25)
                .scaleEffect(textValue.isEmpty ? 1: 0.8, anchor: .leading)
            TextField("", text: $textValue)
        }
        .padding(.top, textValue.isEmpty ? 0 : 15)
        .frame(height: 52)
        .padding(.horizontal, 16)
        .overlay(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 12).stroke(lineWidth: 1).foregroundColor(.gray))
        .animation(.default)
    }
}

The above code is to create a CustomTextField named TextInputField. If you want to use the about component

struct ContentView: View {
    
    @State var itemName: String = ""
    
    var body: some View {
         TextInputField(placeHolder: "Item Name": textValue: $itemName)
    }
}

Javier Heisecke · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-20 19:14:13Z

I'm using @ChrisR's answer as a base for my answer, so instead of doing all that calculation with two RoundedRectangles and label's width; you can position the Text on top and give it a background matching the app's background color

    struct FloatingTitleTextField: View {
    
    let placeholder: String
    @Binding var text: String
    
    var body: some View {
        TextField("Placeholder", text: $text)
            .foregroundColor(.gray)
            .font(.system(size: 20))
            .padding(EdgeInsets(top: 15, leading: 10, bottom: 15, trailing: 10))
            .background {
                ZStack {
                    RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 5)
                        .stroke(.black, lineWidth: 1)
                    Text(placeholder)
                        .foregroundColor(.gray)
                        .padding(2)
                        .background()
                        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity,
                               maxHeight: .infinity,
                               alignment: .topLeading)
                    
                        .offset(x: 20, y: -10)
                }
            }
    }
}

When calling the textfield you do it like this

FloatingTitleTextField(placeholder: "Placeholder", text: $text)

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