UITextView not saving markedTextStyle (UITextInput protocol)

Question

Marking text in a UITextView, but for some reason it's refusing to accept anything I give it with setMarkedTextStyle. -markedTextStyle always returns nil, and the marked text always looks the same (blue background and maintains text color).

[_taggedUsersView setMarkedTextStyle:@{UITextInputTextColorKey: [UIColor whiteColor], UITextInputTextBackgroundColorKey: [UIColor tranceLinkBlue], UITextInputTextFontKey: [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Medium" size:14.0]}];

Tried doing this both when I create the textview, right before marking text and right after. But it still maintains the default style, and returns nil for the style.

Answer 1

After a lot of testing the only thing I can say is that it is a bug in the SDK. Setting markedTextStyle property has no effect and getter returns always nil.

This comes against what we can read in documentation:

markedTextStyle

A dictionary of attributes that describes how marked text should be drawn.

I reported it to Apple as a bug (Bug ID - 17914881).

Answer 2

I think you want to use attributed text property instead of markedtextstyle (if I understand your question correctly)

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uitextview_class/Reference/UITextView.html

How can I set the color and alignment of attributed text in a UITextView in iOS 7?

Answer 3

Do you want to change the selectedText or the markedText property?

The later will only for Chinese/Japanese writing so maybe you should try modifying highlightedTextColor instead.