Not able to change TextField Border Color

I am trying to change color of the border of my TextField using a BorderSide, but it does not work.

This is my code below.

new TextField(
  decoration: new InputDecoration(
    border: new OutlineInputBorder(
      borderSide: new BorderSide(color: Colors.teal)
    ),
    hintText: 'Tell us about yourself',
    helperText: 'Keep it short, this is just a demo.',
    labelText: 'Life story',
    prefixIcon: const Icon(Icons.person, color: Colors.green,),
    prefixText: ' ',
    suffixText: 'USD',
    suffixStyle: const TextStyle(color: Colors.green)),
  )
)

Screenshot of the result is shown below.


The new way to do it is to use enabledBorder like this:

new TextField(
  decoration: new InputDecoration(
    enabledBorder: const OutlineInputBorder(
      borderSide: const BorderSide(color: Colors.grey, width: 0.0),
    ),
    focusedBorder: ...
    border: ...
  ),
)

That is not changing due to the default theme set to the screen.

So just change them for the widget you are drawing by wrapping your TextField with new ThemeData()

child: new Theme(
          data: new ThemeData(
            primaryColor: Colors.redAccent,
            primaryColorDark: Colors.red,
          ),
          child: new TextField(
            decoration: new InputDecoration(
                border: new OutlineInputBorder(
                    borderSide: new BorderSide(color: Colors.teal)),
                hintText: 'Tell us about yourself',
                helperText: 'Keep it short, this is just a demo.',
                labelText: 'Life story',
                prefixIcon: const Icon(
                  Icons.person,
                  color: Colors.green,
                ),
                prefixText: ' ',
                suffixText: 'USD',
                suffixStyle: const TextStyle(color: Colors.green)),
          ),
        ));

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Well, I really don't know why the color assigned to border does not work. But you can control the border color using other border properties of the textfield. They are:

  1. disabledBorder: Is activated when enabled is set to false
  2. enabledBorder: Is activated when enabled is set to true (by default enabled property of TextField is true)
  3. errorBorder: Is activated when there is some error (i.e. a failed validate)
  4. focusedBorder: Is activated when we click/focus on the TextField.
  5. focusedErrorBorder: Is activated when there is error and we are currently focused on that TextField.

A code snippet is given below:

TextField(
 enabled: false, // to trigger disabledBorder
 decoration: InputDecoration(
   filled: true,
   fillColor: Color(0xFFF2F2F2),
   focusedBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,color: Colors.red),
   ),
   disabledBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,color: Colors.orange),
   ),
   enabledBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,color: Colors.green),
   ),
   border: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,)
   ),
   errorBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,color: Colors.black)
   ),
   focusedErrorBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(4)),
     borderSide: BorderSide(width: 1,color: Colors.yellowAccent)
   ),
   hintText: "HintText",
   hintStyle: TextStyle(fontSize: 16,color: Color(0xFFB3B1B1)),
   errorText: snapshot.error,
 ),
 controller: _passwordController,
 onChanged: _authenticationFormBloc.onPasswordChanged,
                            obscureText: false,
),

disabledBorder:

disabledBorder


enabledBorder:

enabledBorder

focusedBorder:

focusedBorder

errorBorder:

errorBorder

errorFocusedBorder:

errorFocusedBorder

Hope it helps you.