can't click UIButton inside a cell in UITableview

Question

searched already some possible fixes but all did not solve mine.

i keep clicking the cell in the uitableview rather than the buttons inside it.

here is my code:

Answer 1

I was doing this:

let plusButton: UIButton = {
        let v = UIButton()
        v.setImage(plusImg, for: .normal)
        v.tintColor = .dark
        v.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        v.addTarget(self, action: #selector(plusButtonHandler), for: .touchUpInside)
        // adding targets here did not work
        return v
    }()

And it appears invoking the addTarget method inside of the closure did not work. When I factored the addTarget method out and instead put it in the initializer, everything worked!