UITableViewCell not showing detailTextLabel.text - Swift

Question

The detail (subtitle) text does not appear. The data are available, though, because when a println() call is added, it prints Optional(\"data\") to the console with the expe

Answer 1

Some of the solutions above are not entirely correct. Since the cell should be reused, not re-created. You can change init method.

final class CustomViewCell: UITableViewCell {
    override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
        super.init(style: .value1, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
    }

    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}

Answer 2

For what it's worth: I had the problem of detail not appearing. That was because I had registered the tableView cell, which I should not have done as the cell prototype was defined directly in storyboard.

Answer 3

Here is how it works for swift 5, to get a subtitle using detailtextlabel, using a UITableView object within a view controller, if you are missing any of these, it will not work and will probably crash.

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate,  UITableViewDataSource

In viewDidLoad:

tableView.register(UITableViewCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "subtitleCell")

Delegate Function:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    // Fetch a cell of the appropriate type.
    let cell = UITableViewCell(style: .subtitle , reuseIdentifier: "subtitleCell")

    // Configure the cell’s contents.
    cell.textLabel!.text = "Main Cell Text"
    cell.detailTextLabel?.text = "Detail Cell Text"

    return cell
}

Answer 4

In Xcode11 and Swift5 , We have to do like below. If we do it by checking the condition cell == nil and then creating UITableViewCell with cellStyle it is not working . Below solution is working for me .

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
           let cellIdentifier = "Cell"
            let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle.subtitle, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
    cell?.textLabel?.text = "Title"
    cell?.detailTextLabel?.text = "Sub-Title"

   return cell!
    }

Answer 5

Same issue here (from what I've read, perhaps a bug in iOS 8?), this is how we worked around it:

1. Delete the prototype cell from your storyboard

2. Remove this line:

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell

3. Replace with these lines of code:

let cellIdentifier = "Cell"

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(cellIdentifier) as? UITableViewCell
if cell == nil {
    cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Value2, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
}

Update for Swift 3.1

let cellIdentifier = "Cell"

var cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
if cell == nil {
    cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.value2, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
}

Update for Swift 4.2 - Simplified

let cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle.value2, reuseIdentifier: "cellId")