Text in UITextField will not center properly

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I think that my question is related to thread. I have a login screen with two UITextFields (user/pass). Both are horizontally center aligned with placeholder text. When I press a field, the placeholder text jumps a bit to the left and the marker is positioned after the first character (which looks awful).

Text field in focus.

When I start typing, the clear button appears (as it should) but the text is not correctly centered in the UITextField view.

Textfield with text

The problem only occurs when a text field has first responder.

How can I make the darn text and placeholder text stay in the center of the text field???

UPDATE: Text field settings in Storyboard:

Text field settings in Storyboard

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remove clear button=) Or add the view with the same size into leftView, and the same mode of displaying – Ossir
NOOOOO :) Granted, that solves the problem but that can't be the only option. I would really like to have the clear button pop up when editing – Chuckels5584
post your code for reference – NANNAV
There is no code altering the text field. It's all done in Storyboard. See added screenshot of settings. – Chuckels5584

2 Answers

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I had the same problem and what I did is that I've created my custom control that has UITextField above and UILabel below both controls has the same width and height. When I need to display text placeholder I set label alpha to 1 and when I need to hide placeholder I set alpha to 0. Also I set text inoput bg color to clear color. In addition to do all of this I implement UITextFieldDelegate (textFieldDidBeginEditing/ textFieldDidEndEditing/ shouldChangeCharactersInRange)

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Please see the control alignment in the below image and set accordingly. It will solve your problementer image description here