UITableViewCell background color when highlighted/selected - ios

Question

I want my cell text color to change when tapped, but not the background color.
I want the cell background to always be white, and only the text color to change when selected.
I've seen a bunch of answers about how to do this...
UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:bgColorView];
... but the view that gets created runs on top of the cell separator.
And to use cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor brownColor]; to change the textColor, I can't have cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;, so I need to figure out something.

Answer 1

if you want to show the separator of cell , you may need this:
add this code :
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
...
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault;
cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor brownColor];
UIView *backgroudView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 1, tableView.bounds.size.width, [self tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath] - 2)];
backgroudView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
UIView *placeholderView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)];
placeholderView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[placeholderView addSubview:backgroudView];
cell.selectedBackgroundView = placeholderView;
...
}
// These codes are used to show the separatorView when the cell didSelected
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
void (^showSeparatorView)(UITableViewCell *cell) = ^(UITableViewCell *cell){
for (id obj in cell.subviews) {
if([obj isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"_UITableViewCellSeparatorView")]){
UIView *view = (UIView *)obj;
view.hidden = NO;
}
}
};
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
showSeparatorView(cell);
if (indexPath.row > 0)
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:indexPath.row - 1 inSection:indexPath.section]];
showSeparatorView(cell);
}
...
}
// These codes are used to show the separatorView when the cell didHightlight
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didHighlightRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
void (^showSeparatorView)(UITableViewCell *cell) = ^(UITableViewCell *cell){
for (id obj in cell.subviews) {
if([obj isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"_UITableViewCellSeparatorView")]){
UIView *view = (UIView *)obj;
view.hidden = NO;
}
}
};
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
showSeparatorView(cell);
if (indexPath.row > 0)
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:indexPath.row - 1 inSection:indexPath.section]];
showSeparatorView(cell);
}
}
Hope these can help to you！

Answer 2

Add this in cellForRowAtIndexPath method so when you tap in cell than change label text color
cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor brownColor];

Answer 3

You can use this -
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell *c = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
[c.textLabel setTextColor:[UIColor brownColor]];
}

Answer 4

You can add the code cell.selectedBackgroundView = [UIView new]; to figure out this. With this method, you don't need cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;.