Define a placeholder text for a RichTextView

[martindufort]

What would be the best way to define a placeholder text for an empty RichTextView.
And that placeholder would dissappear upon first char and appear on empty?

Thanks

[S1D1T1]

do you mean the light gray text such as “Username” that instructs the user what to enter?

I implemented that with RichTextEditor. See my code here: #165

[danielsaidi]

@martindufort @S1D1T1 While the NSTextView approach is a great find, I'm not sure a corresponding API exists for UITextView. If it does, I think we should add a placeholder property to the component protocol. 👍

[S1D1T1]

agreed. UITextview is more of a challenge - and I do need it for my iOS release. Someone once posted a trick for that a long while back. We should get that guy's help.

[martindufort]

Ok so what is the best way to tackle this apart from setting a "special color" to the placeholder string.
Can we insert special "placeholder" key attribute over the range of the placeholder and then look for it within the text?