How to add a placeholder to a TextField
Updated for Xcode 13.3
SwiftUI’s TextField supports placeholder text just like UITextField did – gray text that is shown in the text field when it’s empty, either giving users a prompt (“Enter your password”) or showing some example data.
To set your placeholder text, pass it in as part of the initializer for your text field, like this:
struct ContentView: View {
@State private var emailAddress = ""
var body: some View {
TextField("johnnyappleseed@apple.com", text: $emailAddress)
.textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
.padding()
}
}
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Important: If you’re using Xcode 12 you need to use RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle() rather than .roundedBorder.
That will show “johnnyappleseed@apple.com” in the text field while it’s empty, but as soon as the user types something in there it disappears.
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