UIButton not responding used in a custom UITableViewCell - ios

Question

I know this issue is already been asked few times in SO. Despite trying those out, I am still unable to solve my problem.
I am using a UITableView inside a UIViewController. I have a custom UITableViewCell which has couple of buttons in it. However, I am not able to make the Button respond to Click event.
The development environment is iOS 9 and Swift 2
Snippets used :
BranchNearMeTableViewCell.swift contains
#IBOutlet weak var btnDetails: UIButton!
view controller class
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("branchNearTableCell") as! BranchNearMeTableViewCell
cell.btnDetails.tag = indexPath.row
cell.btnDetails.addTarget(self, action: "showDetails:", forControlEvents: .TouchUpInside)
}
func showDetails(sender: UIButton){
print("Button Pressed:")
}
Additional Info:
TableView and TableCellView has User interaction disabled in Interface builder since don't want the entire cell to be clickable.
UIButton inside TableViewCell has User Interaction enabled.
Being an iOS noob, I may be making a silly mistake which I might have overlooked.
Similar questions that I checked include:
SO1
SO2
SO3
I Deeply appreciate any help regarding this question.

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue. I was programmatically adding an UIButton to the UITableViewCell via addSubview. The button would not respond to touch events. Using Debug View Hierarchy, I finally discovered that any subviews added to the UITableViewCell was behind contentView, which was blocking user input from reaching the UIButton. The issue was resolved by adding the UIButton to contentView instead of the UITableViewCell.

Answer 2

I would have userInteractionEnabled set to true on the table view cell as well. I would prevent taps using the UITableView allowsSelection to false
Also remember to remove the target and action in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: since the cells are recycled, the button might already have the target and action, it might add a second.

Answer 3

I found a simple solution:
Inherits UITableViewCell, and override init()
override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
//init subviews, eg. self.switch = UISwitch()
super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
// add this line magic code
contentView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
//add subviews, e.g. self.addSubView(self.switch)
}

Answer 4

You only have to do (in ViewDidLoad):
mTableView.delaysContentTouches = false

Answer 5

For programmatically created views, the only thing to remember is to declare buttons using lazy var in UITableViewCell. And also add subviews to contentView instead of the cell itself For example:
class CounterCell: UITableViewCell {
lazy var incrementButton: UIButton = {
let button = UIButton()
button.setTitle("+", for: .normal)
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(incrementAction), for: .touchUpInside)
return button
}()
override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
contentView.addSubview(incrementButton)
// Your constrains here
}
#objc func incrementAction() {
}
}
When using programmatically views, there's no need to add .userInteractionEnabled flags.
Then to take the action out of the cell, just add a delegate and assign it from the UITableViewDataSource.

Answer 6

I came across this issue today, with a button inside a static UITableview cell, that was not responding to user events.
I realised the 'Content View' of the cell also has a 'User Interaction Enabled' tick box. Make sure you select the 'Content View' inside the UITableview cell in your Document Outline menu, then tick the box for 'User Interaction Enabled' in the Attributes Inspector - see attached photo for reference. 'User Interaction Enabled' also needs to be checked for the cell for this to work.
Hope this helps. XCcode screen shot

Answer 7

Also, make sure you are adding target actions to your buttons outside their setup. So instead of
let button: UIButton = {
//addTarget...
}()
you can have a function to set up your buttons after something happens:
func setButtonsUp() {
// myButton.addTarget
}

Answer 8

For anyone else struggling, here's my solution:
sendSubviewToBack(cell.contentView)
The thing that there's now an extra UITableViewCellContentView layer which blocks interaction with views behind it.
Related issue: An extra UITableViewCellContentView overlay appears in a TableView on iOS 14 preventing taps, but works fine on iOS 13

Answer 9

Ad a first sight nothing seems to be wrong with your code.
So I suggest you to add a background color to the superview of the button, why? because if the button is outside the frame of its superview it will never receive touches.
If you see that the button is not inside the background color probably you have an issue positioning the item, check constraints or whatever you are using.
Check also the frame of the button.
You can also do both by inspecting the view at runtime, here a tutorial.

Answer 10

I dont know what wrong in the code but i can suggest which i personally use and it works for me
In BranchNearMeTableViewCell.swift
#IBOutlet var btnDetails: UIButton!
#IBAction func btnDetailsClick(sender: AnyObject) {
tapButton?(self)
}
var tapButton: (UITableViewCell -> Void)?
In Table view controller
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("branchNearTableCell") as! BranchNearMeTableViewCell
cell.tapButton = {(user) in
//User will be tablecell here do whatever you want to do here
}
}
So if you click on button in table cell this cell.tapButton will be called you can do whatever you want to do here

Answer 11

The only things we need to do is in cellForRowAt just put:
cell.selectionStyle = .none
in this way, UITableview will bypass the touch of selecting cells and allow buttons inside our cells to be clickable.

Answer 12

set cell and cell content view isUserInteractionEnabled = true
Add Tapgesture to the button
Add a closure to handle gesture action

Answer 13

Add target for that button.
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(connected(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside)
Set tag of that button since you are using it.
button.tag = indexPath.row
Achieve this by subclassing UITableViewCell. button on that cell, connect it via outlet.
Make sure button.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
To get the tag in the connected function:
#objc func connected(sender: UIButton){
let buttonTag = sender.tag
}

Answer 14

Make sure that ALL of tableView's superviews do have isUserInteractionEnabled set to true

Answer 15

User interaction was already enabled for my UIButton. The thing that worked for me is
switching the stackView distribution to "Fill".