Getting the exact location of a UITableViewCell

Question

Given a UITableView, how can I find the location of a specific UITableViewCell? In other words, I want to get its frame relative to my iPhone screen, n

Answer 1

Jhaliya's answer wasn't quite enough for me, I needed to do some more manipulations to get it working. My tableView was added to a viewController and its location on the right half way down the screen. So you need to take the tableView origin into account aswel as the scroll offset.

CGRect rowRect = [tableView rectForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
CGPoint offsetPoint = [self.infoTableView contentOffset];

// remove the offset from the rowRect
rowRect.origin.y -= offsetPoint.y;

// Move to the actual position of the tableView
rowRect.origin.x += self.infoTableView.frame.origin.x;
rowRect.origin.y += self.infoTableView.frame.origin.y;

Answer 2

Swift 3

Relative to the tableView:

let rect = self.tableView.rectForRow(at: indexPath)

Relative to the Screen:

If you only know the cell,

if let indexPath = tableView.indexPath(for: cell) {
     let rect = self.tableView.rectForRow(at: indexPath)
     let rectInScreen = self.tableView.convert(rect, to: tableView.superview)
}

If you know the indexPath then don't need call the if statement.

Answer 3

Apart from rectForRowAtIndexPath you need to consider the scrolling.

Try this code:

 // Get the cell rect and adjust it to consider scroll offset
 CGRect cellRect = [tableView rectForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
 cellRect = CGRectOffset(cellRect, -tableView.contentOffset.x, -tableView.contentOffset.y);