I\'ve implemented a custom table view cell class that inherit from UITableViewCell. The tableview contains a background image, so I want cell\'s background to b
I found that none of the above worked from XCode 5.1.1, iOS 7.1.
If you are using Interface Builder with prototype cells, select the prototype cell, then from the attributes selector in the View section, change the Background form default to Clear Color:

This seems to work fine. None of the above code changes are needed, either--this is a pure IB solution.