UIButton in a UITableView header ignores most touches

Question

I\'ve got a button that I\'m adding as a subview of a table view\'s tableHeaderView. The button appears fine, and tap-and-holding on it works intermittently - for the most p

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case I had a container view instantiated in IB (that was applied as the table view header in code), with a UIImageView occupying the entire frame of that container. The misbehaving button resided in the image view.

Turns out I needed to have sizing struts in IB set as follows...

Container View: exterior anchors all on, interior resizing - all off

Sub Image View: all struts on (interior and exterior)

I had several different table views, all using header views. Some would respond to touch events correctly, some were flaky. This solved my problem