How to dismiss keyboard for UITextView with return key?

In IB's library, the introduction tells us that when the return key is pressed, the keyboard for UITextView will disappear. But actually the return key can only act as '\n'.

I can add a button and use [txtView resignFirstResponder] to hide the keyboard.

But is there a way to add the action for the return key in keyboard so that I needn't add UIButton?

Solution 1:

Figured I would post the snippet right here instead:

Make sure you declare support for the UITextViewDelegate protocol.

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {

    if([text isEqualToString:@"\n"]) {
        [textView resignFirstResponder];
        return NO;
    }

    return YES;
}

Swift 4.0 update:

func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {
    if text == "\n" {
        textView.resignFirstResponder()
        return false
    }
    return true
}

Solution 2:

UITextView does not have any methods which will be called when the user hits the return key. If you want the user to be able to add only one line of text, use a UITextField. Hitting the return and hiding the keyboard for a UITextView does not follow the interface guidelines.

Even then if you want to do this, implement the textView:shouldChangeTextInRange:replacementText: method of UITextViewDelegate and in that check if the replacement text is \n, hide the keyboard.

There might be other ways but I am not aware of any.

Solution 3:

I know this has been answered already but I don't really like using the string literal for the newline so here is what I did.

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)txtView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
    if( [text rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet]].location == NSNotFound ) {
        return YES;
    }

    [txtView resignFirstResponder];
    return NO;
}

Swift 4.0 update:

func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool {
if (text as NSString).rangeOfCharacter(from: CharacterSet.newlines).location == NSNotFound {
    return true
}
txtView.resignFirstResponder()
return false
}

Solution 4:

I know this has been answered a lot of times, but here are my two cents to the issue.

I found the answers by samvermette and ribeto really useful, and also the comment by maxpower in the ribeto's answer. But there is a problem with those approaches. The problem that matt mentions in the samvermette's answer and it's that if the user wants to paste something with a line break inside it, the keyboard would hide without pasting anything.

So my approach is a mixture of the three above mentioned solutions and only checking if the string entered is a new line when the length of the string is 1 so we make sure the user is typing instead of pasting.

Here is what I have done:

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
    NSRange resultRange = [text rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet] options:NSBackwardsSearch];
    if ([text length] == 1 && resultRange.location != NSNotFound) {
        [textView resignFirstResponder];
        return NO;
    }

    return YES;
}