UITableViewHeaderFooterView: Unable to change background color

Question

I\'m trying to change the background color of UITableViewHeaderFooterView. Although the view is appearing, the background color remains the default color. I\'m getting a log

Answer 1

On iOS9 headerView.backgroundView.backgroundColor worked for me:

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section{
    TableViewHeader *headerView = (TableViewHeader *)[super tableView:tableView viewForHeaderInSection:section];
    headerView.backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}

On iOS8 I was using headerView.contentView.backgroundColor without problems, but now with iOS 9, I was getting a weird issue that made the background color not fill the whole space of the cell. So I tried just headerView.backgroundColor and I got the same error from the OP.

Setting the background color on UITableViewHeaderFooterView has been deprecated. Please use contentView.backgroundColor instead.

So now everything works great and without warnings by using headerView.backgroundView.backgroundColor