TableView Section Change Header Alignment

Question

I have This tableView Here :

With the default left text alignment which i would like to change to a right text alignment . How can i do this ?

EDIT:

Now it looks like this :

Anastaciaanastas

Are you working with Swift 2 or 3? – Cherise

@GeorgeH Swift 2.3 – Anastaciaanastas

@GeorgeH I have some weird spacing issue can you try and help me ? – Anastaciaanastas

Answer 1

You have to do this in UITableView Datasource method viewForHeaderInSection:

Swift 2.3:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, viewForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {
    let headerText = UILabel()
    headerText.textColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor()
    headerText.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
    switch section{
    case 0:
        headerText.textAlignment = .Center
        headerText.text = "This Header Will Be Centered"
    case 1:
        headerText.textAlignment = .Right
        headerText.text = "This Header Will Be Aligned Right"
    default:
        headerText.textAlignment = .Left
        headerText.text = "Default Will Be Left"
    }

    return headerText
}

EDIT: Modified the code above. You can use the section argument to identify the section you want to modify.

Cherise

i get this error : fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value – Anastaciaanastas

It Partially Works...Now all my sections have that header text but i want to only have header text in some of them, and customize the text to each one of them as well . + i want my original grey color if may i ask :D – Anastaciaanastas

@NewbieQuestions Updated the code to identify the section you need. – Cherise

Ok Things look better now but there is still one more thing , The lable gets dots in the ends when my original text fit just right...Know how to fix this? – Anastaciaanastas

Updated code. Any further customizations you will need to ask a new question. – Cherise

Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Cherise

i sent you a couple of messege @George H – Anastaciaanastas

there are the dots like the text is discontinued and i would like it to look like the first picture just with the new alignment. – Anastaciaanastas

There is this weird spacing that i dont know how to fix can you help? – Anastaciaanastas

Answer 2

Swift 4

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, titleForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> String? {
    return "Your Header Name"
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
    let header: UITableViewHeaderFooterView = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView
    header.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "YourFontname", size: 14.0)
    header.textLabel?.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.right
}

Wennerholn

It works flawlessly! IMO this is better solution than the marked answer – Streamway

thats the way I like it, native quick and easy 👍 – Verisimilar

For the newbies in this world, don't forget to call .delegate = self in your viewDidLoad Example: self.tableView.delegate = self – Rempe