UItableViewCell - don't allow to select the cell, but can still press buttons inside it?

Question

Hi there

Can you add a button as a subview to a uitableview cell and have that clickable, but not the cell itself. ie: I don't want the selected view to come up. Obvs I can just not have the cell disclose anywhere, but I don't want it to look "selected" when someone taps it.

Setting user interaction enabled to NO makes the whole thing unenabled, including the buttons.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

Tom

Answer 1

implement this delegate method:

- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    return nil;
}

and set the UITableViewCells selectionStyle property to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

Answer 2

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

This will prevent the cell to highlight for a bit before the willSelect returns nil