iOS Trick: Add padding to a UITextField

Subclass UITextField and override this function:

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + 10, bounds.origin.y + 8,
bounds.size.width - 20, bounds.size.height - 16);
}

- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
return [self textRectForBounds:bounds];
}

Good practice is have your own text field class with “paddingX” and “paddingY” properties.

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