iPhone - Is it ok to override UITableViewCell setSelected:animated

Question

I am drawing custom UITableViewCells. My cells are opaque and are completely drawn in the drawRect of the cell to help with performance. I want to handle the look of a sel

Answer 1

You can override -[UITableViewCell setSelected:animated:], but you should always call the super's implementation in your implementation. Not doing so could have have unanticipated effects on other selection-related behaviors.

If you don't want the superclass to make any styling changes as a result of the selection, just set the cell's selectionStyle property to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone.