Can I force a UITableView to hide the separator between empty cells?

Question

When using a plain-style UITableView with a large enough number of cells that the table view cannot display them all without scrolling, no separators appear in the empty space below the cells. If I have only a few cells the empty space below them includes separators.

Is there a way that I can force a UITableView to remove the separators in the empty space? If not I'll have to load a custom background with a separator drawn in for each cell which will make it harder to inherit behavior.

I found a somewhat similar question here, but I can't use a grouped table view in my implementation.

Answer 1

Setting the table's separatorStyle to UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone (in code or in IB) should do the trick.

Answer 2

It seems that there is no way to achieve the behavior that I would like. I'll need to resort to hiding the separators entirely and just drawing a separator on the bottom of each cell that I create.

Answer 3

You can achieve what you want by defining a footer for the tableview. See this answer for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369831/eliminate-extra-separators-below-uitableview-in-iphone-sdk

Answer 4

Using the link from Daniel, I made an extension to make it more usable:

//UITableViewController+Ext.m
- (void)hideEmptySeparators
{
    UIView *v = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    v.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    [self.tableView setTableFooterView:v];
    [v release];
}

After some testings, I found out that the size can be 0 and it works as well. So it doesn't add some kind of margin at the end of the table. So thanks wkw for this hack. I decided to post that here since I don't like redirect.

Answer 5

@AngeDeLaMort

Thanks! Solution worked for me.