SwiftUI TextEditor Background Color

15 Aug 2022

swiftui texteditor

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This recipe shows how to change TextEditor background color in SwiftUI.

The end result looks like this:

preview

This feature is available starting in SwiftUI 4 (iOS 16, macOS 12.4).

The trick is to do the same thing we did for changing List background color: set scrollContentBackground to hidden:

TextEditor(text: $text)
  .scrollContentBackground(.hidden) // HERE
  .background(.green)