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

In my case I tried to added the UIButton direct to the cell by self.addSubview(myButton), so I changed to self.contentView.addSubview(myButton) and it worked

It seems the contentView was in front of the myButton so the button won't receive the tap gesture.

Answer 2

I ran into this problem, but in my case it was not related to the table view, instead it was because I was using subviews in my button for which userInteractionEnabled was true, setting that value for false (NO) for all the button's subviews fixed the issue for me.

Answer 3

I'm just baffled by this issue....

I managed to fix this problem by doing this on one project:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("RegCell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! CustomCell

    cell.contentView.userInteractionEnabled = false // <<-- the solution

    return cell
}

but the same did not work for a different project. I have no idea why...

Answer 4

Create a custom UITableViewCell. Refer this link.

Say you have a UIButton by the name of displayButton, you can do something like this:

Inside your - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath, after you create your cell,

[cell.dislayButton addTarget: self
                             action: @selector(replyButtonPressed:withEvent:)
                   forControlEvents: UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

And the create the method like so in your ViewController:

- (void) replyButtonPressed: (id) sender withEvent: (UIEvent *) event
{
    UITouch * touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
    CGPoint location = [touch locationInView: self.tableView];
    NSIndexPath * indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint: location];
}

Answer 5

The UITableViewCell is handling all the gestures by default. Set cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; to make it disable the default behaviour.

Answer 6

I have the same issue, and somehow I figured out my mistake.
After I changed the constraints with self(UITableViewCell) to constraints with contentView of self(UITableViewCell),my cell's button is clickable again.