How to get a UITableViewCell from one of its subviews

Question

I have a UITableView with a UITextField in each of the UITableViewCells. I have a method in my ViewController which handles the \"Did

Answer 1

You can attach the UITableViewCell itself as a weak association to the UITextField, then pluck it out in the UITextFieldDelegate method.

const char kTableViewCellAssociatedObjectKey;

In your UITableViewCell subclass:

- (void)awakeFromNib {
    [super awakeFromNib];
    objc_setAssociatedObject(textField, &kTableViewCellAssociatedObjectKey, OBJC_ASSOCIATION_ASSIGN);
}

In your UITextFieldDelegate method:

UITableViewCell *cell = objc_getAssociatedObject(textField, &kTableViewCellAssociatedObjectKey);
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
//...

I'd also recommend re-associating every time a cell is dequeued from the UITableView to ensure that the text field is associated with the correct cell.