SOLVED: Beginner SwiftUI Question: Is using ViewModifier the best way to customize several repeated objects?

@tylerlw82

May '21

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a project that requires several TextFields to enter data. So there will be about 12 fields in each of three different views.

In the past when I've needed a bunch of modifiers added to several objects, I would just use ViewModifiers. That seemed to work great. Shout out to Paul Hudson for this post.

What I need to have now is for each of the TextFields show different placeholder data. They also need to match a certain look. Is using a ViewModifier the best way to do this? I feel like in UIKit I might use a class here, but I'm not sure.

My first thought is to use VM's for the bulk of the modifier's, then use specific entries per each TextField for their placeholder texts.

Is this the best way to do this?

Thank you all!

@roosterboy HWS+

May '21

I would create a custom TextFieldStyle and apply it to whatever container holds all your TextFields.

If you don't want to use that then, yes, apply your ViewModifiers to the container so they apply to all the TextFields within.

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