UITableView: the proper way to display a separator for the last cell

Question

The question is what\'s the right-most way to display a separator in the last cell in a table/section.

Basically this is what I am after.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue and found a workaround. Apple hides the last uitableviewcell separator and then displays it if you select the cell or if you call select and deselect on that cell.

So I taught the best is in - (void)layoutSubviews. The separator view is called _separatorView and it's a private property. Using the cell's selected / highlighted states you can come up with something like this:

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
    // Call super so the OS can do it's layout first
    [super layoutSubviews];

    // Get the separator view
    UIView *separatorView = [self valueForKey:@"_separatorView"];
    // Make the custom inset
    CGRect newFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, self.bounds.size.width, separatorView.frame.size.height);
    newFrame = CGRectInset(newFrame, 15.0, 0.0);
    [separatorView setFrame:newFrame];

    // Show or hide the bar based on cell state        
    if (!self.selected) {
        separatorView.hidden = NO;
    }
    if (self.isHighlighted) {
        separatorView.hidden = YES;
    }
}

Something like this.