UISearchDisplayController not correctly displaying custom cells

Question

So I have a tableView that has sections and rows, and it uses a custom cell class. The custom cell has an image view and a few labels. The table view works fine, and the sea

Answer 1

[self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath]; 

did not work because table view cells are registered to a specific table view. This will not work for your search results controller table view. You did find this out yourself and switched to:

[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];

which is the right thing to do.

Also, designing your custom cell in storyboard will not really work for your search results controller because you are not able to design cells for search table view, only for the main table view.

Yes, you can register that class for your search table view, as you did here,

[self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView registerClass:[JSBookCell class] forCellReuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];

but that will not have any of the stuff you designed in your custom cell in storyboard. You would have to create all programmatically.