UITableViewCell: How to prevent blue selection background w/o borking isSelected property?

Question

I have a custom UITableViewCell subclass. I have set the contentView of my cell subclass to a custom UIView class in which i am overr

Answer 1

An excellent resource on customizing UITableViews has been this post by Matt Gallagher. What you'll want to do is set the selectedBackgroundView to a new view (instead of nil) that is either transparent or a UIImageView.

Answer 2

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

Answer 3

How about this?

// disable user interaction
cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

Answer 4

What has worked for me in the past is just putting:

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated { }

In my UITableViewCell subclasses (because it won't call super and make itself highlighted). Hope this is what you were looking for.

Answer 5

By far the easier method - in my opinion - to achieve this, is by setting the Table View attributes checkbox in the Interface Builder screen where it says "Show Selection on Touch". See the screenshot below:

Answer 6

You must also override setHighlighted: to prevent the blue gradient from ever showing. If you just override setHighlighted: then you end up with a momentary selection effect.

so you'll have these two methods:

- (void)setHighlighted: (BOOL)highlighted animated: (BOOL)animated
{
    // don't highlight
}

- (void)setSelected: (BOOL)selected animated: (BOOL)animated 
{
    // don't select
    //[super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
}