UITableViewCell is 1px shorter in didSelectRowAtIndexPath than cellForRowAtIndexPath

Question

I have a UITableViewCell that I create in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:. In that method I call:

UITableViewCell *cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:nil] autorelease];
NSLog(@"Cell height: %f", cell.contentView.frame.size.height);

This gives me a return value of 44.000000.

Then in my tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: method, I call:

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath: indexPath];
NSLog(@"Cell height: %f", cell.contentView.frame.size.height);

And this gives me a return value of 43.000000. Aren't they the same cell? What gives?

Answer 1

This is probably due to the separator. Have you looked into that?

Answer 2

I would chock this one up to Apple's behind-the-scenes highlighting magic.