Matching left alignment of custom & standard UITableViewCell types

Question

I\'m defining custom UITableViewCells in a storyboard. I\'m also using some of the built in standard style cells. I need to set up constraints so that my

Answer 1

What worked for me was adding these 2 lines to my custom UITableViewCell implementation:

self.preservesSuperviewLayoutMargins = YES;
self.contentView.preservesSuperviewLayoutMargins = YES;
// ... add test view to content view...

Then I used Auto Layout with the default spacing:

[self.contentView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint 
  constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"H:|-[testView]-|" options:0 metrics:nil 
   views:@{@"testView":testLabel}]];

[self.contentView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint 
  constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|-[testView]-|" options:0 metrics:nil 
   views:@{@"testView":testLabel}]];