Telling a UITextField to become first responder while embedded in a UITableViewCell
It turned out that the text field was nil when I was trying to send it first responder. Sending becomeFirstResponder later in the life cycle worked.
I was having the same problem with a textfield I had added as a subview to a grouped table view cell - but figured out a solution after some poking around.
Assuming you have given the textfield a tag in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method, you can do something like this:
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated { [super viewDidAppear:animated]; NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0]; UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; myTextField = (UITextField *)[cell viewWithTag:kMyTextFieldTag]; [myTextField becomeFirstResponder];}
Calling it in the -(void)viewDidLoad would work.
-(void)viewDidLoad{ [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view. [self.myTextField becomeFirstResponder] //... any other code you need }