How to Create Border in Uibutton

How to create border in UIButton?

You can set the border properties on the CALayer by accessing the layer property of the button.

First, add Quartz

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

Set properties:

myButton.layer.borderWidth = 2.0f;
myButton.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor;

See:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer#//apple_ref/occ/cl/CALayer

The CALayer in the link above allows you to set other properties like corner radius, maskToBounds etc...

Also, a good article on button fun:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161221132308/http://www.apptite.be/tutorial_custom_uibuttons.php

Set border for UIButton

layer.borderColor must be CGColor, so code below will work.

_myButton.layer.borderWidth=2.0f;
_myButton.layer.borderColor=[ UIColor lightGrayColor ].CGColor;

Your code

   [UIColor lightGrayColor]

returns a UIColor instance, not a CGColor instance. And UIColor can't bridge to CGColor, so your cast

(__bridge CGColorRef _Nullable)

returns unexpected result.

You can see strange result using this code

NSLog( @"%@", (__bridge CGColorRef _Nullable)([UIColor lightGrayColor]) );

returning below. ( Xcode 7.3 )

2016-04-06 15:30:51.415 36442877[8570:2643221] UIDeviceWhiteColorSpace 0.666667 1

If you give borderColor CGColor instance directory, you don't need casting.

Set a border to UIButton with Star Image

You may try to create a system button, and change the tint color of the button based on your requirement
Make sure the star image just consist of the star and rest of the part is transparent.
Then try changing the tintColor of the button

Here is an image you can use to test.

How can I make a button have a rounded border in Swift?

Use button.layer.cornerRadius, button.layer.borderColor and button.layer.borderWidth.
Note that borderColor requires a CGColor, so you could say (Swift 3/4):

button.backgroundColor = .clear
button.layer.cornerRadius = 5
button.layer.borderWidth = 1
button.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor

Set a border for UIButton in Storyboard

You can use key path.

For example the corner radius (layer.cornerRadius) as describe on the image.
You will not be able to see the effects on storyboard, cause this parameters are evaluated at runtime. Now you can use a swift category in UIView (code bellow the picture) in with @IBInspectable to show the result at the storyboard (If you are using the category, use only cornerRadius and not layer.cornerRadius as a key path.

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extension UIView {
    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat {
        get {
            return layer.cornerRadius
        }
        set {
            layer.cornerRadius = newValue
            layer.masksToBounds = newValue > 0
        }
    }
}

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Here is category from Peter DeWeese answer that allow use keypath layer.borderUIColor to set the border color.

CALayer+XibConfiguration.h:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface CALayer(XibConfiguration)

// This assigns a CGColor to borderColor.
@property(nonatomic, assign) UIColor* borderUIColor;

@end

CALayer+XibConfiguration.m:

#import "CALayer+XibConfiguration.h"

@implementation CALayer(XibConfiguration)

-(void)setBorderUIColor:(UIColor*)color
{
    self.borderColor = color.CGColor;
}

-(UIColor*)borderUIColor
{
    return [UIColor colorWithCGColor:self.borderColor];
}

@end

How to add only a TOP border on a UIButton?

UIView *lineView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, btn.frame.size.width, 1)];
lineView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
[btn addSubview:lineView];

you can do the same for each border. Adding multiple UIViews you can add bottom and left or top and right or any border you want.

i.e. bottom & left:

UIView *bottomBorder = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, btn.frame.size.height - 1.0f, btn.frame.size.width, 1)];
bottomBorder.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

UIView *leftBorder = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(1, 0, 1, btn.frame.size.height)];
leftBorder.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

[btn addSubview:bottomBorder];
[btn addSubview:leftBorder];

if you don't use ARC, remember to release UIViews after adding subviews (or use autorelease).

Swift set UIButton setBorderColor in Storyboard

Here's my UIButton subclass:

@IBDesignable
public class Button: UIButton {
    @IBInspectable public var borderColor:UIColor? {
        didSet {
            layer.borderColor = borderColor?.cgColor
        }
    }
    @IBInspectable public var borderWidth:CGFloat = 0 {
        didSet {
        layer.borderWidth = borderWidth
        }
    }
    @IBInspectable public var cornerRadius:CGFloat {
        get {
            return layer.cornerRadius
        }
        set {
            layer.cornerRadius = newValue
            layer.masksToBounds = newValue > 0
        }
    }
}

EDIT:

I created a simple project and added the above IBDesignable subclass. Below are three screen shots of the result. Note that in the Identity inspector I've set the Class to be Button, not UIButton and that it reports that the Designables are "Up to date". Note that in the Attributes inspector these appear as properties at the very top.

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