White space before separator line into my TableView

Question

I have a question about UITableView... I have a UITableViewController and I created a custom cell. When I visualize the tableView I see a little white space before the separ

Answer 1

There is no white space! I entered a bug on this, Apple just closed it as "not a bug", but told me why its not a bug. I wrote a simple project that sets a color for every possible view in the app. What I see is that the color of those pixels is actually the background color of the cell itself (not the contentsView!), just as Apple had told me.

The cell.contentView.backgroundColor is green, and the cell.background color is red (taken with Pixie):

In the end, without a separator, the cell.contentView fills the cell completely. With a separator, there is a pixel or two gap at the bottom. The separator, when inset, fills the most of the gap, but there are then some pixels of the cell showing through.

Mystery solved!

EDIT: It seems that depending on how you configure your Storyboard, that the contentView.backgroundColor gets "lost" or set to White. If you over ride it when supplying cells you can get the behavior your want:

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("FOO", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell

    cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
    cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.greenColor()