UITableView: Highlighted cell after switching back views

Question

Hi,

I'm using a UINavController together with some UITableViews to display a kind of drill down for some data (e.g. like the Contact App). Works well. The only problem I have is, when I select a cell in the first table view it is highlighted, then the view switches to the next level and then, if I go back to the first level, the cell is still highlighted. So, how can I reset the highlighting when switching back?

Thanks for your help.

Regards Matthias

Answer 1

In the controller for the table view do:

-(void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)inAnimated {
    NSIndexPath *selected = [self.table indexPathForSelectedRow];
    if ( selected ) [self.table deselectRowAtIndexPath:selected animated:NO];
}

Or you can deselect the selected row right in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: where you handle pushing the next controller.

Answer 2

Another way is to deselect the cell when you select it.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
}