UIView backgroundColor disappears when UITableViewCell is selected

Question

I have a simple tableViewCell build in interface builder. It contains a UIView which contains an image. Now, when I select the cell, the default blue selection background is

Answer 1

Ok, loosing the background color of a UIView class is normal behavior when its in a selected tableviewcell. I couldn't figure out how to prevent that. Now I've just replaced the UIView with an UIImageView containing a stretched 1x1 white pixel. Ugly imo, but it works.