Text inset for UITextField?

I would like to inset the text of a UITextField.

Is this possible?

Overriding -textRectForBounds: will only change the inset of the placeholder text. To change the inset of the editable text, you need to also override -editingRectForBounds:

// placeholder position
- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
     return CGRectInset(bounds, 10, 10);
}

// text position
- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
     return CGRectInset(bounds, 10, 10);
}

I was able to do it through:

myTextField.layer.sublayerTransform = CATransform3DMakeTranslation(5, 0, 0);

Of course remember to import QuartzCore and also add the Framework to your project.

If you need just a left margin, you can try this:

UItextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:...];
UIView *leftView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 10, textField.frame.size.height)];
leftView.backgroundColor = textField.backgroundColor;
textField.leftView = leftView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

It works for me. I hope this may help.