Labels are lingering in my reusable table cells

Question

I have a table whose cells contain labels. Whenever I dequeue a reusable cell, the old labels are still lingering on it. I was able to remove them with this:

Answer 1

This kind of problem tends to happen when you add subviews to your cells in cellForRowAtIndexPath: regardless of whether it's being dequeued or newly created. As a result, you end up creating a new subview each time the row is reused, and the old subviews accumulate.

What you instead want to do is to use the same subview each time, but just set the relevant attributes (e.g., labels or color) each time. Check out the answers to How do I clear a cell completely when I reuse it? to see some possible approaches.

Answer 2

Subclass UITableViewCell (if you aren't already). Override prepareForReuse and remove the labels there. Might work

Answer 3

I kinda did what Yuji suggested. Instead of putting in new labels on each iteration, I checked whether the cell contained labels and then either edited the labels if they were there or put them in if they weren't. Code goes like this:

    if([[newcell.contentView subviews] count]>=2 && [[[[newcell.contentView subviews] objectAtIndex:0]class] isSubclassOfClass:[UILabel class]] && 
   [[[[newcell.contentView subviews] objectAtIndex:1]class] isSubclassOfClass:[UILabel class]])
{
    //change the text of the labels
}
else
{
    //add the labels to the cell
}