Change font for a programmatically created UISearchBar

Question

I have found that the code in my AppDelegate:

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil]
 setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14]];

works to change the font of a UISearchBar created from IB. No problems there.

However, if I create the UISearchBar in code as such:

UISearchBar *bar = [[UISearchBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44)];
bar.placeholder = @"test";
[self.view addSubview:bar];

Then the above UITextField appearance code has no effect. Is there a way to change the font of a programmatically created UISearchBar?

Thank you!

I guess this answer will work, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697689/change-the-font-size-of-uisearchbar — arthankamal, Aug 06 '13 at 03:07

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '13 at 13:34

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Try this,It's Working Fine for iOS 5.0 and up: (iOS 7 also)

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"League Gothic" size:20]];

answered Oct 03 '13 at 13:34

Siva

3

In iOS 7 this works for me only if I call it after the UISearchBar is allocated. – Jeff Mascia Oct 14 '13 at 19:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

0

You can try this

UITextField *textField = [[searchBar subviews] objectAtIndex:1];
[textField setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:25]];

for more reference check this

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Community

answered Aug 06 '13 at 04:53

Toseef Khilji

Thank you, this worked, although I used a for() loop to check the class just in case. – kurisukun Aug 06 '13 at 05:07
crashes in `iOS7`. What about that? – Vaibhav Saran Sep 18 '13 at 10:47
This is not recommended way... instead follow this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4697689/change-the-font-size-of-uisearchbar/46664960#46664960 – Rishi Oct 10 '17 at 10:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 10 '15 at 08:32

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You can use this

UITextField *textField = [self.searchBar valueForKey: @"_searchField"];
[textField setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" size:17.0]];

Hope this will help.

answered Nov 10 '15 at 08:32

Abuzar Amin

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