In UIKit, we use UITextView for enter fields that require lengthy textual content entries from the consumer. In SwiftUI, we will accomplish the identical with TextEditor. The TextEditor view in SwiftUI handles multiline textual content enter. On this tutorial, we’ll discover ways to use TextEditor with a placeholder, making it operate equally to a UITextView in UIKit.
Step-by-Step Implementation of multi-line editable textual content area in SwiftUI
Step 1: Open Xcode and choose “Create a brand new Xcode challenge.“. Select “App” beneath the iOS tab.Title your challenge and ensure “SwiftUI” is chosen for the Consumer Interface.
Step 2: Create a state variable named multiLineText.
import SwiftUI
struct FeedbackView: View {
@State personal var multiLineText = ""
var physique: some View {
}
}
Step 3: Let begin designing our multi-line textual content area in SwiftUI utilizing TextEditor.
- First we’ll take VStack with alignment to main as we wish our view to to not be in centre of display screen however towards the forefront.
- Add a Textual content view with title “Remark” illustrating consumer the he can add feedback beneath
- Take a ZStack with alignment to topLeading and inside it first we’ll add a RoundedRectangle view in order that we can provide border to our TextEditor. Then will examine if state variable named multiLineText is empty or not. If it’s empty we’ll add placeholder textual content utilizing Textual content view.
- Lastly we’ll add TextEditor to our ZStack. Lastly we’ll change opacity of TextEditor if it’s empty as a way to let placeholder Textual content seen to consumer.
Full code snippet is given beneath.
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
@State personal var multiLineText = ""
var physique: some View {
VStack(alignment: .main) {
Textual content("Remark")
.font(.system(dimension: 14.0, weight: .medium))
ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) {
RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 14, model: .steady)
.strokeBorder(Shade.purple.opacity(0.6), lineWidth: 1)
if multiLineText.isEmpty {
Textual content("Placeholder Textual content")
.foregroundColor(Shade.grey)
.font(.system(dimension: 14.0, weight: .common))
.padding(.horizontal, 8)
.padding(.vertical, 12)
}
TextEditor(textual content: $multiLineText)
.font(.system(dimension: 14.0))
.opacity(multiLineText.isEmpty ? 0.7 : 1)
.padding(4)
}
.body(top: 135)
}
.padding()
}
}
#Preview {
ContentView()
}
Output of utilizing TextEditor with Placeholder in SwiftUI

This code snippets provides you with a multi-line editable textual content area in SwiftUI with a placeholder that disappears as soon as the consumer begins typing and re – seems if its empty
