iOS: How to access custom labels on the contentView of an UITableViewCell correctly?

Question

I have a UITableView with each cell being broken into several sections with a different label in each section. The table gets populated by an NSArray of NSDictionaries whic

Answer 1

Probably you are assigning the value within the if(cell==nil) block? Only the initialization should happen within that block. Move the rest out of it. (Post your complete cellForRow code, if you need more help)

//edit: now, after you posted your code i see your problem:

you are storing all your labels and views in member variables.. but of course that only happens, when the if(cell != nil) block is executed. After that, you always access the same single cell (that was assigned last). So you are updating at least one cell ;)

To fix your problem, work e.g. with tags to get your corresponding views back from the cell. I will show it for your backgroundView, but you have to do it for all of your views (INSTEAD of the member variables. Remove them.)

static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"myCell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: cellIdentifier];

if (cell == nil) {
  //// Background View
  UIView* cellBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 622, 43)];
  cellBackgroundView.tag = 1;
  [cellBackgroundView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Images/Library/phase_table_cell.png"]]];
}

// get the backgroundview from the current cell
UIView* backgroundView = [cell.contentView viewWithTag: 1];

and so on..