swift ios 8 change font title of section in a tableview

Question

I would like to change the font type and font size of a section header in a table view controller.

My code:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDi         


        

Answer 1

I found the easiest way is to do the following in your View Controller or Table View Controller.

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {

    let header = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView
    header.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "FontName", size: 14)


}

Answer 2

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) 
{
    let header = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView
    header.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "Futura", size: 11)
    header.textLabel?.textColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor()
}

Answer 3

Updated for Xcode 11, Swift 5

The top voted answers didn't work for me, here's what did:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, viewForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {

    /// Create the view.
    let headerView = UIView()
    headerView.backgroundColor = .clear

    /// Create the label that goes inside the view.
    let headerLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 30, y: 0, width: tableView.bounds.size.width, height: 30))
    headerLabel.font = UIFont(name: "myFont", size: 12)
    headerLabel.textColor = .white
    headerLabel.text = "myHeaderName"
    headerLabel.sizeToFit()

    /// Add label to the view.
    headerView.addSubview(headerLabel)

    /// Return view.
    return headerView
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    /// Return the same height as the height of the label in your header view.
    return 30
}

Answer 4

Simple working solution: (Swift 2.0)

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, viewForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {

            //Create label and autoresize it
            let headerLabel = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, tableView.frame.width, 2000))
            headerLabel.font = UIFont(name: "Avenir-Light", size: 30)
            headerLabel.text = self.tableView(self.tableView, titleForHeaderInSection: section)
            headerLabel.sizeToFit()

            //Adding Label to existing headerView
            let headerView = UIView()
            headerView.addSubview(headerLabel)

            return headerView
}

Answer 5

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int)
{
    let header = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView
    header.textLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "Futura", size: 38)!
    header.textLabel?.textColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor()
}