UISearchbar keyboard search button Action

Question

I'm using UISearchBar when I input text on UISearchBar the keyboard shows. At that time, keyboard return key is "Search". I want to implement event when I press the keyboard search button. How can I implement the action? On UITextField it has

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField;

But on UISearchBar it doesn't have return action.

Thank you for your helping.

possible duplicate of [How i dismiss keyboard on tapping search button on keyboard regarding UISearchBar?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8558339/how-i-dismiss-keyboard-on-tapping-search-button-on-keyboard-regarding-uisearchba) — Parth Bhatt, Jul 13 '13 at 09:18

score 129 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 14 '18 at 15:01

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Add UISearchBarDelegate in .h

Also set SearchBar's object delegate to self.

Add this to the UISearchBarDelegate's method:

- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
    // Do the search...
}

Swift

func searchBarSearchButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
}

edited Oct 14 '18 at 15:01

Naveed Ahmad

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answered Jul 13 '13 at 08:15

Milo

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score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '17 at 09:36

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In Swift 3:

 func searchBarSearchButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
        searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
 }

answered Apr 24 '17 at 09:36

Kaptain

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 13 '13 at 08:13

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The textFieldShouldReturn method is a textField delegate method and not the one you're looking for. What you need is a UISearchBarDelegate method called searchButtonClicked, have a look here.

answered Jul 13 '13 at 08:13

Adis

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 28 '20 at 10:04

i Used following code in swift 5. implement UISearchBarDelegate then write following code in class keyboard will automatically hide on clicking search

class sample: UIViewController, UISearchBarDelegate {

    let searchbar:  UISearchBar = {
        let sear = UISearchBar()
        sear.tintColor = Mycolor().lightgray1
        sear.backgroundColor = Mycolor().lightgray1
        sear.barTintColor =  Mycolor().lightgray1
        sear.placeholder = "Search Asset"
        sear.layer.cornerRadius = 30
        sear.barStyle = .default
        sear.backgroundImage = UIImage()

        sear.returnKeyType = .search

        // sear.addShadow(offset: CGSize(width: 10, height: 10), color: UIColor.darkGray, radius: 20, opacity: 5)

        return sear

    }()

    func searchBarSearchButtonClicked(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) {
        searchBar.resignFirstResponder()
    }
}

UISearchbar keyboard search button Action

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