Change TextField Text Color in Flutter  –  The RIGHT Way [2023]

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 text color to match your design. So in this tutorial, we’ll see how to change TextField text color in Flutter.

Here’s how it looks after changing color:

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Steps to change TextField text color in Flutter
• Changing TextField text color globally
• Different ways of adding color

Steps to change TextField text color in Flutter

You can change TextField text color in Flutter, by adding style to the TextField widget. Basically, you provide the styling instructions by using the TextStyle widget.

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 style parameter and assign the TextField widget.

Step 3: Inside the TextField widget, add the color parameter and set the color of your choice.

Code Example

TextField(
  style: TextStyle(color: Colors.pinkAccent), //<-- SEE HERE
),

Changing TextField text color globally

In the previous section, we saw how to change the TextField text 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 text color at the app level.

You can change the TextField text color globally by defining the TextTheme and then adding subtitle1 parameter to it. Finally, you can assign the TextStyle width with the color of your choice.

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 textTheme parameter and then assign the TextTheme.

Step 4: Inside the TextTheme add the subtitle1 parameter and then assign the TextStyle.

Step 5:Inside the TextStyle add the color parameter and provide the color.

Code Example

MaterialApp(
  title: 'Flutter Demo',
  theme: ThemeData(
    primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
    inputDecorationTheme: const InputDecorationTheme(
    textTheme:
        TextTheme(
      subtitle1: TextStyle(color: Colors.pinkAccent), //<-- SEE HERE
    ),
  ),
  home: ChangeTextFieldColorDemo(),
);

Output

Different ways of adding color

There are main three ways you can add color to the TextField text widget.

1. Colors.red: This is used to define from the predefined colors.
2. Color(0xffF02E65): This is used to have a custom color.
3. Color.fromARGB(255, 66, 125, 145): This is used to have color from the alpha, red, green, and blue color combination.

Code Example

TextField(
  style: TextStyle(color: Colors.pinkAccent),
),
TextField(
  style: TextStyle(color: Color(0xffF02E65)),
),
TextField(
  style: TextStyle(color: Color.fromARGB(255, 66, 125, 145)),
),

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to change TextField text 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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