UITableView: the proper way to display a separator for the last cell

Question

The question is what\'s the right-most way to display a separator in the last cell in a table/section.

Basically this is what I am after.

Answer 1

I just found something that works for me. In a few words: give your UITableView a tableFooterView and set its frame's height to 0. This makes an actual separator show, with the right insets.

In more details: if you are using the storyboard, drag a UIView to the bottom of your Table View (in the tree view on the left) so it shows just below Table View Cell, at the same hierarchical level. This creates a tableFooterView. Of course this can be done programmatically as well.

Then, in your UITableViewController's implementation:

UIView *footerView = self.tableView.tableFooterView;
CGRect footerFrame = footerView.frame;
footerFrame.size.height = 0;
[footerView setFrame:footerFrame];

Let me know if that works for you! It might also work for the first separator if you use a tableHeaderView instead, I haven't tried it though.