Dismissing Keyboard not working

[carterdhkim]

Hi there, I would like some help regarding the issues I have.

On the book, in the Dismissing the Keyboard part of the chapter, I followed the book’s instruction but when I tap the background of the view, it did not dismiss the keyboard. Can anyone help? Here’s my code.

import UIKit

class ConversionViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet var celsiusLabel: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet var textField: UITextField!
    @IBAction func dismissKeyboard(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
    textField.resignFirstResponder()
    }
    @IBAction func fahrenheitFieldEditingChanged(_ textField: UITextField) {
        if let text = textField.text, !text.isEmpty {
            celsiusLabel.text = text 
        } else {
        celsiusLabel.text = "???"
        }
    }
    
}

I am also uploading a file that shows the connection of the ConversionViewController respectively. Help would be appreciated.

[ibex10]

You may have dropped the Tap Gesture Recognizer on to the wrong object when you dragged it out.

I have deliberately done that, and I immediately experienced the same problem.

Delete the existing Tap Gesture Recognizer, and drag a new one, making sure that you drop it on to the view that contains the textField, not on to the textField itself, and connect it to the action method.

[0x1]

This worked for me. I made sure the View under Conversion View Controller was highlighted first - then drag-n-drop the Tap Gesture Recognizer onto the View.