UITableView section header creeps under navigation bar

Question

Due to navigation bar style being translucent, I get my first section header (section # 0) hidden under my navigation bar.

I know this has been asked before, and a workaround to it is to do:

 self.navController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;

This places the problematic view correct - section header appears beneath the navigation bar instead of hiding behind it, which is what I want.

However, this invalidates my other view designs and leaves extra spaces in all of them, right under my nav bar.

How do I get the section header at correct place?

Spiv

Answer 1

Resolved:

• Open storyboard file
• select UITableView
• Under attribute inspector -> Scroll view size -> Content insets, set Top = 44 (or whichever is your nav bar height).

See image below - it is under size section:

And here is how to fix it programmatically.

Spiv

Where is attribute inspector? – Dugald

Content insets don't exist in the inspector, only scroll indicators insets. – Enthrall

@SteveTaylor - check if you accidentally hid it using Hide button. – Spiv

I checked again. It's not hidden. It's simply not there. Nevertheless, I resolved this problem not with magic numbers but instead by embedding my UITableViewController in a UINavigationViewController. – Enthrall

Answer 2

To solve this while using SVPullToRefresh. I created the method below and inplace of [self.tableView.pullToRefreshView stopAnimating];

-(void)stopPullToRefreshAnimation
{
    [self.tableView.pullToRefreshView stopAnimating]; // call to stop animation

    UIEdgeInsets inset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(44, 0, 0, 0);
    self.tableView.contentInset = inset;
    self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = inset;
} //stopPullToRefreshAnimation

Situla

property pulltorefreshview not found on object of type tableview – Pontic

Answer 3

For others having this issue while using (SVPullToRefresh).

It can be solved by changing the view.originalTopInset in UIScrollView+SVPullToRefresh.m to whatever point you want your header to start at.

Centralism

Tariq can you please share detail on this? After initial scrolling operation I can never get my first tableview element to be seen it creeps up under the navcontroller/bar. I see in the SVPullToRefresh code the originalTopInset var but it is used in many places - where should I change it and how? – Florez

Answer 4

Easiest solution:

tableView.tableHeaderView = UIView()

Elect