UITableViewCell selection backgroundColor change not working - ios

Question

I have a custom UITableViewCell class that looks like this:
class CustomTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
self.selectionStyle = .none
}
override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
print("Selected: ", selected)
if selected {
self.backgroundColor = .red
} else {
self.backgroundColor = .white
}
}
override func setHighlighted(_ highlighted: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setHighlighted(highlighted, animated: animated)
print("Highlighted: ", highlighted)
if highlighted {
self.backgroundColor = .red
} else {
self.backgroundColor = .white
}
}
And then in my UITableViewDelegate I added this code:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true)
// Navigate to the next screen
}
However, both print() statements are always false. And the backgroundColor never changes. Anything I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Remove all other code just replace your UITableViewCell class with this
class CustomTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
self.backgroundColor = selected ? .red : .white
}
}

Answer 2

I figured out the two issue in your code. Please refer below issue along with the solution.
Please use the below code to set background color of UITableViewCell
self.contentView.backgroundColor = .red
Instead of
self.backgroundColor = .red
Just replace didSelectRowAt method if want to change color permanently otherwise keep as it is.
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
}
Refer below attached source code of the demo application. If any further help required.
Source Code