The TextField widget in Flutter is one of the most used widgets. It is used to accept the input from users. After adding the TextField you may want to change its cursor color to match your design. So in this tutorial, we’ll see how to change TextField cursor color in Flutter.
Here’s how it looks after changing color:

Here’s what we’ll cover:
- Steps to change TextField cursor color in Flutter
- Changing TextField cursor color globally
- Different ways of adding color
Steps to change TextField cursor color in Flutter
To change TextField cursor color in Flutter, simply add the cursorColor property and set the color of your choice.
Here is the step by step instructions:
Step 1: Locate the file where you have placed the TextField
widget.
Step 2: Inside the TextField
widget, add the cursorColor
parameter and set the color of your choice.
Step 3: Run the app
Code Example
TextField( cursorColor: Colors.redAccent, //<-- SEE HERE ),
Changing TextField cursor color globally
In the previous section, we saw how to change the TextField cursor color at the page level. but sometimes you might be looking to have a common style across all the pages of your app. In that case, you might want to change the TextField cursor color at the app level.
You can change the TextField cursor color globally by defining the TextSelectionThemeData
and then adding cursorColor
property.
Here’s how you do it:
Step 1: Locate the MaterialApp
widget.
Step 2: Inside the MaterialApp, add the theme
parameter with ThemeData
class assigned.
Step 3: Inside the ThemeData
add the textSelectionTheme
parameter and then assign the TextSelectionThemeData
.
Step 4: Inside the TextSelectionThemeData
add the cursorColor
parameter and provide the color.
Code Example
MaterialApp( title: 'Flutter Demo', theme: ThemeData( primarySwatch: Colors.blue, textSelectionTheme: TextSelectionThemeData( cursorColor: Colors.red, //<-- SEE HERE ), ), home: ChangeTextFieldColorDemo(), );
Different ways of adding color
There are main three ways you can add color to the TextField cursor widget.
Colors.red
: This is used to define from the predefined colors.Color(0xffF02E65)
: This is used to have a custom color.Color.fromARGB(255, 66, 125, 145)
: This is used to have color from the alpha, red, green, and blue color combination.
Code Example
TextField( cursorColor: Colors.redAccent, ), TextField( cursorColor: Color(0xffF02E65), ), TextField( cursorColor: Color.fromARGB(255, 66, 125, 145), ),
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we learned how to change TextField cursor color in Flutter with practical examples, we first saw how to change the color at the page level and then explored the way to change color at the app level. Finally, we also learned what are the different ways to add colors.
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