disable the uitableview highlighting but allow the selection of individual cells

Question

when you tap on a cell the row gets selected and highlighted.Now what i want to do is disable the highlighting but allow the selection.Is there a way around it.There is question that answers this but it disables both the selection and highlighting.

Poppyhead

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; add this in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method – Lisk

Answer 1

You can just set the cell's selection style to "None" from Storyboard:

Or from code:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

For Swift 3:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none

For Swift 4 & above:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Ernie

When I select to "none" I lose ability to work of of highlighted state. Can I make the background none/white without loosing that state? – Creative

In which function would this go? I'm guessing "cellForRowAt"? – Illa

You should do it in the cell not the tableview – Lunisolar

Answer 2

Change UITableViewCell's selectedBackgroundView color to transparent.

    let clearView = UIView()
    clearView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor() // Whatever color you like
    UITableViewCell.appearance().selectedBackgroundView = clearView

or to set for a specific cell:

cell.backgroundView = clearView

Pestilent

This is the best options, since cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone sometimes breaks something deeply inside Apples animation logic. – Teyde

then use instead ..UITableViewCell.appearance().selectionStyle = .None – Pood

This is nice to use if you have selectable things within the cell. – Laughter

Excellent solution. Putting this code in the cell's awakeFromNib() function works a treat – Cobber

This option makes table view cell separator line not seen. – Charlatan

Answer 3

Try setting cell selection style to None -

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];

This will solve your problem

Dunbar

Answer 4

For Swift 3.0:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Harman

Answer 5

For Swift:

UITableViewCell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None;

Or when you subclass a cell in swift:

class CustomCell : UITableViewCell {

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
        selectionStyle = .None
    }

}

Delagarza

Answer 6

in swift 3

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true)
}

Isoniazid

Answer 7

To add a custom color use the below code. And to make it transparent use alpha: 0.0

cell.selectedBackgroundView = UIView(frame: CGRect.zero)
cell.selectedBackgroundView?.backgroundColor = UIColor(red:0.27, green:0.71, blue:0.73, alpha:1.0)

If you use custom color and want to give it rounded corner look use:

cell.layer.cornerRadius = 8

Also, use this for better animation and feel

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

    tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true)
}

Dowdy

Answer 8

For those looking for a programmatic way in Swift 3

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none

Campball

Answer 9

You can set the selection property of the cell itself in the storyboard

Johnsiejohnson

Answer 10

For Swift 5 the best way is:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Didier

Answer 11

For Objc:

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];

- (void)viewDidLoad {
  [super viewDidLoad];
  _tableView.allowsSelection = YES;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    .. .. .. .. 
   [cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
   . . . . .. 
}

Balas

Answer 12

Here is the solution for swift 3,works even in editing mode

cell.selectionStyle = .gray
cell.selectedBackgroundView = {

    let colorView = UIView()
    colorView.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.0)
    //change the alpha value or color to match with you UI/UX

    return colorView
}()

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