How to make a cell on a UITableView not selectable?

Question

I have a cell that I am inserting to the top of a UITableView. How can I make sure that when the user clicks on the cell, it doesn't show the blue selected indicator?

San

Answer 1

To remove the ability of selecting any table cells, or particular table cells based on the row index, use willSelectRowAt

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {


        return nil
    }

To simply remove the UI effect of selecting the element, set the selection style of the UITableViewCell to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

Swift 5:

selectionStyle = .none

Rosaliarosalie

This doesn't make the cell non-selectable it just means the visual appearance of the cell doesn't change when it is selected. tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: still gets called when the cell is tapped. To actually prevent selection you need to implement tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath: on your UITableViewDelegate and return nil for non-selectable rows. – Bassesalpes

Swift 3 - cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none – Humorist

Or simply: cell.selectionStyle = .none – Radtke

Answer 2

To make a cell completely non-selectable on a per-cell basis two things are required:

1- As others said:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

2- Implement this delegate method as follows:

// Called before the user changes the selection. Return a new indexPath, or nil, to change the proposed selection.
- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if(cell.selectionStyle == UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone){
        return nil;
    }
    return indexPath;
}

Twinscrew

Answer 3

From the Storyboard set the following for the Table View:

Selection: No Selection

Show Selection On Touch: False

Diploblastic

Answer 4

you can do

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

Anurous

One dot is missing. Here is the fixed version: cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None – Drill

Answer 5

for Swift 3 you can use

 cell.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

Tudela

just past that code into cellForRowAt indexPath method of table view , its simple – Tudela

this method is useful when u want to user interaction disable on table view otherwise you can use method share by Mr Ben Below – Tudela

Works in Swift 4 also. – Helices

It is working fine for me. Should be the correct answer. Another way is that in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath delegate method, detect cell index and just do nothing and return. – Kennithkennon

My favorite part about this answer is that you can declare it INSIDE the cell. If you have a cell (like an empty state cell) that you never want to respond to taps, this is a good way to go. – Sorrows

Answer 6

Swift Syntax:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None

Pentameter

Answer 7

I am answering from point of view of disabling TableViewCell. You can use the storyboard.

XCode Version 8.2.1 (8C1002)

Select the TableVewCell on storyboard and following will be visible on the right side panel - Utilities.

Make the Selection: None

That's all!

Synchromesh

Answer 8

The question was how to make certain cells selectable and others not. This was my solution, (after trying lots of other suggestions):

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {
    if (indexPath.row == 1 || indexPath.row == 2) {
        return indexPath
    }
    return nil        
}

Miyamoto

Answer 9

myTable.allowsSelection = false

Alpha

Answer 10

Update in Swift 3:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none

Espy

Answer 11

Implement this method of UITableViewDelegate

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    return NO;
}

Inspan

Answer 12

For Swift 3:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Corrosion

As suggested Above "This doesn't make the cell non-selectable it just means the visual appearance of the cell doesn't change when it is selected. tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: still gets called when the cell is tapped. To actually prevent selection you need to implement tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath: on your UITableViewDelegate and return nil for non-selectable rows. –" – Rinker

@Rinker as indicated in the original question, this person only wants to hide "the blue selected indicator". That is not the same as wanting to make it completely non-selectable. Simply put the person asking the question is only trying to hide visual indication of a selection. – Corrosion

Answer 13

Swift 5

  func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell") as! UITableViewCell;
    cell.selectionStyle = .none
}

Yoruba

Answer 14

Swift 5

you may wanna try this too

tableView.allowsSelection = false

Vancouver

Answer 15

To remove the ability of selecting any table cells, use willSelectRowAt

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {
    return nil
}

or by definition during table initialization (if you are not in table editing mode):

tableView.allowsSelection = false

if you need to restrict any table cells selection during table editing:

tableView.allowsSelectionDuringEditing = false

To remove the ability of selecting the top cell use the same function but with statement:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {
    if indexPath.row == 0 {
        return nil
    }
    return indexPath
}

To simply remove the UI effect of selecting the element, set the selection style of the UITableViewCell to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

Swift 5:

selectionStyle = .none

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