Tableview cell separating line disappears when tapped - ios

Question

I have a UITableView with custom tableview cells with the separator line between each cell. I recently began implementing multi cell selection when in editing mode. In order to have the blue circled checkmarks when each cell is selected, I changed cell selectionStyle from UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault. To get rid of the gray shade when the cell is selected I just implemented a white background like this:
UIView * cellBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:cell.frame];
cellBackgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.multipleSelectionBackgroundView = cellBackgroundView;
cell.selectedBackgroundView = cellBackgroundView;
The problem is that when I'm not in edit mode, the separator line disappears whenever the cell is selected, but when I select a cell in edit mode, the line remains. Any idea how to resolve this so the separator always remains?

Answer 1

try following:
Add this lines
[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
[tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:#[indexPath]
withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationAutomatic];
at the begining of didSelectRowAtIndexPath
this is weird bug which exists since iOS7.0

Answer 2

I know that the cell separator disappearing is a common issue, but none of the current solutions seemed to solve my problem so I came to the conclusion that I would need to toggle my selectionStyle to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone when my tableView is not in editing mode and UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBluewhen I'm in editing mode. I was able to achieve this by calling the following in my view controller containing my table view:
- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
if(tableView.editing)
{
[((customTableViewCellClass*)[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]) changeSelectionStyle:YES];
}
else
{
[((customTableViewCellClass*)[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]) changeSelectionStyle:NO];
}
return indexPath;
}
Then in my custom tableviewcell class I call the following:
-(void) changeSelectionStyle: (BOOL) selected
{
if(selected)
{
self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue;
}
else
{
self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
}
}
In cellForRowAtIndexPath I left the code that changed the view for multipleSelectionBackgroundView
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UIView * cellBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:cell.frame];
cellBackgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.multipleSelectionBackgroundView = cellBackgroundView;
cell.selectedBackgroundView = cellBackgroundView;
}