UITableViewCell with background image does not look good

Question

Hi, I created my UITableViewCellStyleDefault styled cell and set its background image:

cell.backgroundView = imgView;

and it works but the background of the text in the cell is still white.So it hides partially the backgroundView. I have tried:

cell.textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
cell.textLabel.opaque = NO;

but none of them worked.

Also the image used for backgroundView has transparent parts but in the cell the are not. I wonder what I am missing.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Refer to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164459/changing-uitableviewcell-textlabel-background-color-to-clear