entry-cursor-color.md

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Entry cursor color on iOS	This article explains how to consume the .NET MAUI iOS platform-specific that sets the cursor color of an Entry.	04/05/2022

Entry Cursor Color on iOS

This .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) iOS platform-specific sets the cursor color of an xref:Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Entry to a specified color. It's consumed in XAML by setting the Entry.CursorColor bindable property to a xref:Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color:

<ContentPage ...
             xmlns:ios="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Maui.Controls.PlatformConfiguration.iOSSpecific;assembly=Microsoft.Maui.Controls">
    <StackLayout>
        <Entry ... ios:Entry.CursorColor="LimeGreen" />
    </StackLayout>
</ContentPage>

Alternatively, it can be consumed from C# using the fluent API:

using Microsoft.Maui.Controls.PlatformConfiguration;
using Microsoft.Maui.Controls.PlatformConfiguration.iOSSpecific;
...

Entry entry = new Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Entry();
entry.On<iOS>().SetCursorColor(Colors.LimeGreen);

The Entry.On<iOS> method specifies that this platform-specific will only run on iOS. The Entry.SetCursorColor method, in the Microsoft.Maui.Controls.PlatformConfiguration.iOSSpecific namespace, sets the cursor color to a specified xref:Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color. In addition, the Entry.GetCursorColor method can be used to retrieve the current cursor color.

The result is that the cursor color in a xref:Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Entry can be set to a specific xref:Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Color:

:::image type="content" source="media/entry-cursor-color/entry-cursorcolor.png" alt-text="Entry cursor color.":::