How to recreate the default UIView the same as the default tableView:viewForHeaderInSection:?

Question

I tried to implement the

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section

to get the text label of the

Answer 1

You can get the default UITableView section headers by implementing the following methods in your tableview class:

-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{   
    return nil;
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return 22; //returning 0 hides section headers
}

This might be particularly useful if you use a UISearchDisplayController in your app, where you want the search results to be displayed in a simple UITableViewStylePlain fashion instead of, let's say, the UITableViewStyleGrouped of your customized main tableview. You could then implement something like this:

-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{   
    if ([self.searchDisplayController.searchBar isFirstResponder]) return nil;
    //create and return your custom UIView here
}