UILabel inside custom UITableViewCell not drawing at the correct size

Answer 1

See my answer on the same topic.

Answer 2

I've fought with similar problems. It was to do with other properties being set in previous incarnations of the cell. To find it / prove it I changed the reuseidentifer for the offending cell to make sure it was a unique cell.

Answer 3

At last, a solution!

Turns out that the cell does layout twice -- once during heightForRowAtIndexPath, which is where I tweak all the heights of the subviews and the cell, and later during some untraceable transaction originating in __CFRunLoopDoObservers. How did I trace this? I added a layoutSubviews override to my custom table view cell class so I could breakpoint it.

During the second pass, the last UILabel subview was getting set to a shorter height than I set it to, probably in accordance with some arcane autoresizing rules. (Yes, I tried tweaking all of those settings first, with no success.) As it turns out, merely doing nothing in layoutSubviews disabled this framework behavior, allowing me to completely control how my views draw.