How to display red "Cancel" button in UITableViewCell? - ios

I am building a custom UITableViewCell which will be displayed while the user is downloading data from a web service, and which will include a "Cancel" button to allow them to cancel the URL connection. I'd like to emulate the look-and-feel of the "Delete" buttons which are displayed in the table editing view, like this:
How can I create such a red button which says "Cancel" instead of "Delete" in my custom UITableViewCell? It appears that the only type of button I can put in a UITableViewCell is a regular UIButton (UIBarButtonItem won't go anywhere except a UIToolbar), and Interface Builder doesn't give an option to create a red Delete-like button as a standard style.

In the end, I just had to create my own custom UITableViewCell, and use some Photoshop magic to figure out how to make a button that looks exactly like the iPhone Delete buttons, but saying "Cancel." It didn't take that much time.

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First let me explain something, so you guys can understand better my problem:
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UIButton Image Not Changing With Interface Builder Settings (Selected & Disabled)

I am trying to set the toggle state of a UIButton through the interface builder. I have done it successfully using code, but I need to get it working through the interface builder.
Im not sure what the issue is but for selected I set its image to 'flashOn' and for disabled I set it to 'flashOff'
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Can you show your implementation for when you got desired results through code? I think, from what I can piece together from your question, that you have mixed up the states of the button.
Default - images will display for this button in any state unless another is specified explicitely
Disabled - image will display when button is disabled. (button will not switch from this state through user interaction as it is disabled)
Selected - image will display when the button is selected, which as far as I know is only when you set the button as selected through code.
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iOS get UINavigationBar's back button in order to set accessibility properties

I have a navigation controller stack where one of the views has a dynamic title.
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Main --> ItemsTableView --> ItemDetails
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I discovered that (in terms of Xcode 7 UI Tests at least) the back bar button item that is created by the system consists of two buttons the entire thing is a button with an accessibility label of whatever the title of the button is, and then the arrow is also a button with an accessibility label of "Back".
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Because button has two references - 1 outlet and 1 action and none of those are used to add image to the button! I just don't understand where from the image gets in...
You should remove the image for both normal and selected states of the button from the attribute inspector(check stateConfig attribute).

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