How to set the height of table header in UITableView?

Question

I have gone through Apple docs about UITableView class and delegate reference but couldn\'t find the way to set the table header height explicitly.

I set Table cell

Answer 1

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
}

or you can use like this also

tableView.estimatedSectionHeaderHeight 

Answer 2

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    sizeHeaderToFit()
}

private func sizeHeaderToFit() {
    let headerView = tableView.tableHeaderView!

    headerView.setNeedsLayout()
    headerView.layoutIfNeeded()

    let height = headerView.systemLayoutSizeFitting(UILayoutFittingCompressedSize).height
    var frame = headerView.frame
    frame.size.height = height
    headerView.frame = frame

    tableView.tableHeaderView = headerView
}

More details can be found here

Answer 3

You can create a UIView with the desired height (the width should be that of the UITableView), and inside it you can place a UIImageView with the picture of the proper dimensions: they won't stretch automatically.

You can also give margin above and below the inner UIImageView, by giving a higher height to the container view.

Additionally, you can assign a Translation transform in order to place the image in the middle of its container header view, for example.

Answer 4

It works with me only if I set the footer/header of the tableview to nil first:

self.footer = self.searchTableView.tableFooterView;
CGRect frame = self.footer.frame;
frame.size.height = 200;
self.footer.frame = frame;
self.searchTableView.tableFooterView = nil;
self.searchTableView.tableFooterView = self.footer;

Make sure that self.footer is a strong reference to prevent the footer view from being deallocated

Answer 5

In case you still need it, have you tried to set the property

self.tableView.tableHeaderView 

If you calculate the heigh you need, and set a new view for tableHeaderView:

CGRect frame = self.tableView.tableHeaderView.frame;
frame.size.height = newHeight;

self.tableView.tableHeaderView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];

It should work.

Answer 6

Just create Footer Wrapper View using constructor UIView(frame:_) then if you are using xib file for FooterView, create view from xib and add as subView to wrapper view. then assign wrapper to tableView.tableFooterView = fixWrapper .

    let fixWrapper = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, 54)) // dont remove
    let footer = UIView.viewFromNib("YourViewXibFileName") as! YourViewClassName
    fixWrapper.addSubview(footer)
    tableView.tableFooterView = fixWrapper
    tableFootterCostView = footer

It works perfectly for me! the point is to create footer view with constructor (frame:_). Even though you create UIView() and assign frame property it may not work.