How to change uitableview delete button text

Question

Hi there I am trying to change the text that is showing in the delete button when a user swipes a uitableviewcell inside my tableview.

I have seen an example in another question thread that says to use this tableview delegate

- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

My question is, how do I use this method.. I am not sure how to use this.

Introductory

Answer 1

In your controller managing the UITableView you should implement the UITableviewDelegate and return the title you want for your method inside the titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAtIndexPath method.

Example:

@interface CategoryAddViewController : UITableViewController
@end

@implementation CategoryAddViewController
// ...
-(NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return @"Please don't delete me!";
}

@end

Leaving you off with something like that:

Berkey

Great, but why doesn't the appearance of the button animate any more? After adding this, the delete button pops up instead of being animated! Edit: My bad, must have been a sim glitch. After restarting the app its ok again. – Antithesis

@FaizanS. I am looking into this as well. Is there no way to just change the property? Something like ... self.tableView.deleteButton.name = @"Remove"; instead of overriding the method? – Barriebarrientos

Not as of the time of writing. In the iOS SDK many things are achiev ed by overriding existing methods of base UI classes. – Berkey

the swift way: func tableView(tableView: UITableView, titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAtIndexPath indexPath:NSIndexPath) -> String{ return "Remove Me"; } – Introduce

In this answer there is no reason to add <UITableViewDelegate>. – Instantaneous

Answer 2

In Swift it is equal, just method signature is diferent!

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> String? {
  return "Erase"
}

Dani

Answer 3

Just return the string that you want to display instead of delete. Say you wish to show "Erase" for all rows, the above function should contain:

return @"Erase";

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Also in your .h file, add the UITableViewDelegate in case your view controller is not a UITableViewController already. That is it can be either:

@interface SomeView : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate>

OR

@interface SomeView : UITableViewController

Runoff

Answer 4

Swift 4.2

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, titleForDeleteConfirmationButtonForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> String? {
        return "Erase"
    }

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