How can I disable the UITableView selection highlighting?

Question

When you tap a row in a UITableView, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing?

Answer 1

All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

or

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];

Further, make sure you either don't implement -tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it.

More info here and here

Answer 2

You can simply implement -tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: function as return nil;

Answer 3

From the UITableViewDelegate Protocol you can use the method willSelectRowAtIndexPath and return nil if you don't want the row selected.

In the same way the you can use the willDeselectRowAtIndexPath method and return nil if you don't want the row to deselect.

Answer 4

For me, the following worked fine:

tableView.allowsSelection = NO;