Need to change the color of table view selection!!!

Question

Hi All, I need to change the default blue color selection of table view to some custom color. Is there any way to do that. Help me

Thanks in Advance Shibin

Answer 1

I do not think you can use a custom color. However, you can use the following property of UITableViewCell

@property(nonatomic) UITableViewCellSelectionStyle selectionStyle

The selection style is a backgroundView constant that determines the color of a cell when it is selected. The default value is UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue. Since

typedef enum {
   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone,
   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue,
   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray
} UITableViewCellSelectionStyle;

you can switch from the default blue to gray, or no colored selection at all.

Answer 2

Another way to do it would be to move in a new view over your cell, with whatever color you'd like and 50% or so opacity. You move this view over to the cell when you get a -setSelected:animated: call. When I say move, you actually could always have a view on top of your cell, but just turn the hidden bit off and on as you need.

Answer 3

The best way to do this is like this:

// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"myCellId";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
     cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
     UIView *v = [[[UIView alloc] init] autorelease];
     v.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
     cell.selectedBackgroundView = v;
    }
    // Set up the cell...
    cell.textLabel.text = @"foo";
    return cell;
}

The relevant part for you is the cell.selectedBackgroundView = v; instruction. You can substitute the very basic view 'v' here with any view you like.

Answer 4

!!! OMG THANK YOU

UIView *v = [[[UIView alloc] init] autorelease];
v.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
cell.selectedBackgroundView = v;

is the answer!!!

!!!

Answer 5

Very good answer, do you know how to stop buttons on a custom cell being selected?