UITextView: how to really disable editing?

Question

I am trying to disable editing on my UITextView . I tried [aboutStable setUserInteractionEnabled: NO] , but this causes the page to be inaccessible.

Here is the current code.

 - (void)loadTextView1 { UITextView *textView1 = [[UITextView alloc] init]; [textView1 setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:14]]; [textView1 setText:@"Example of editable UITextView"]; [textView1 setTextColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; [textView1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; [textView1 setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentLeft]; [textView1 setFrame:CGRectMake(15, 29, 290, 288)]; [self addSubview:textView1]; [textView1 release]; } 

Answer 1

First of all, you use installation methods when you can just use properties. Secondly, you set up a bunch of unnecessary properties that are very close to the default settings. Here is much simpler and possibly what you intended using your code:

Objective-c

 - (void)loadTextView1 { UITextView *textView1 = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(15, 29, 290, 288)]; textView1.text = @"Example of non-editable UITextView"; textView1.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; textView1.editable = NO; [self addSubView:textView1]; [textView1 release]; } 

swift

 func loadTextView1() { let textView1 = UITextView(frame: CGRect(x: 15, y: 29, width: 290, height: 288)) textView1.text = "Example of non-editable UITextView" textView1.backgroundColor = .clear textView1.isEditable = false addSubView(textView1) } 

Answer 2

You can use the editable property

 textView.editable = NO; 

Answer 3

Swift Version 2.0

 self.textView.editable = false 

More information can be found in the Apple UIKit Framework Reference .

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Additional UITextView attributes to consider:

• text
• attributedText
• font
• Textcolor
• editable
• allowsEditingTextAttributes
• dataDetectorTypes
• TextAlignment
• typingAttributes
• linkTextAttributes
• textContainerInset

Answer 4

For Swift 3.0 and Swift 4.0:

 textView.isEditable = false 

Answer 5

Swift 3.0

 func loadTextView1() { let textView1 = UITextView() textView1.text = "Example of non-editable UITextView" textView1.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear textView1.frame = CGRect(x: 15, y: 29, width: 290, height: 288) textView1.isEditable = false addSubView(textView1) } 

Otherwise, in the Xcode Interface Developer, uncheck the "Editable" checkbox in the Attributes Inspector for the text view.

Answer 6

If you use the interface designer, you can simply uncheck the "Editable" checkbox in the Attributes Inspector.

Answer 7

If you want to prevent any user interaction, you need to do 2 of the following things:

  self.commentText.isEditable = false self.commentText.isSelectable = false