UITableView Setting some cells as "unselectable"

Question

How can I set the UITableView's cell property to be unselectable? I don't want to see that blue selection box when the user taps on the cell.

Answer 1

Apple says that the first thing you should do in didSelectRowAtIndexPath is to deselect the row

[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:[tableView indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:NO];

Then you can change the AccessoryType to be a checkmark, or none, etc. So when you enter didSelectRowAtIndexPath you could deselect the row, and if its not meant to be selected, simply don't check that row.

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Answer 2

To completely prevent selection of the UITableViewCell, have your UITableViewDelegate implement tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath:. From that method you can return nil if you do not want the row to be selected.

- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tv willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)path
{
    // Determine if row is selectable based on the NSIndexPath.

    if (rowIsSelectable)
    {
        return path;
    }

    return nil;
}

Answer 3

Set the table cell's selectionStyle property to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone. That should prevent it from highlighting, and you can also check that property in your tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:.

Answer 4

Had this problem, too, tried everything already mentioned. The final trick, which got rid of the "blue flash" at selecting a table cell was adding this line:

self.myTableView.allowsSelection = NO;

Not sure whether it was this one line or everything combined, but as total grand result I get no more blue selection or even the blue flash. Happy!

Answer 5

use this:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;