How to use UITableViewHeaderFooterView?

Question

Hi I want to use UITableHeaderFooterView in my app and i am doing this:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional          


        

Answer 1

This is an old post and has good answers, but I wanted to share another work-around for a very similar issue I experienced.

At first, I used:

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

With a custom prototype cell for my header view. Subclassing UITableViewCell as such

    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"CustomHeaderCell";
CustomHeaderCell * cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

However, when animating TableView cells above section headers (making them twice as tall) the header view would disappear. This, as pointed out, is because the implementation only supplied a view, not a re-usable view.

Instead of forgoing everything with the customized prototype cell, I implemented the UITableViewHeaderFooterWithIdentifier and set it as the prototyped cell's contentView, without subclassing UITableViewHeaderFooterWithIdentifier.

  static NSString *customHeaderViewIdentifier = @"CustomHeaderView";
UITableViewHeaderFooterView *headerView = [tableView dequeueReusableHeaderFooterViewWithIdentifier:customHeaderViewIdentifier];

headerView = (UITableViewHeaderFooterView *)cell.contentView;

I realize this creates two instances of the header view (at least I think it would..) however it does allow you to keep the benefits of a customized prototype cell without doing everything programatically.

Full code:

  // viewDidLoad
    [myTableView registerClass:[UITableViewHeaderFooterView class] forHeaderFooterViewReuseIdentifier:@"CustomHeaderView"];

// Implement your custom header
 -(UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
     static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"CustomHeaderCell";
    CustomHeaderCell * cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

    static NSString *customHeaderViewIdentifier = @"CustomHeaderView";
    UITableViewHeaderFooterView *headerView = [tableView dequeueReusableHeaderFooterViewWithIdentifier:customHeaderViewIdentifier];

// do your cell-specific code here
// eg. cell.myCustomLabel.text = @"my custom text"

    headerView = (UITableViewHeaderFooterView *)cell.contentView;

return headerView;
}