iphone - How to add space at start of UITextField

Question

I am creating an app that contain multiple UITextField. In the textField i have sated border type to none and background image. It display fine, But now my text is started from the lest border which does not look good, like this

How can i add space at the start of the textfield?

Answer 1

Try this

UILabel * leftView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,0,7,26)];
leftView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

textField.leftView = leftView;

textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;
textField.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;