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

If you are using XIB for tableView's main headerView you can set XIB as a freeform set the Height as you want and unclick Autoresizing's top,bottom blocks and upper,lower arrows.Only horizontal pieces will be selected.Vertical will be unselected as I mentioned above.

Answer 2

With autolayout you could do something like:

tableView.sectionHeaderHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
tableView.estimatedSectionHeaderHeight = <your-header-height>

or if your headers are of different heights, go ahead and implement:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return <your-header-height>
}

Answer 3

If add a view as table header view in IB, set the frame of that view in IB in Tab 5(size inspector)

Answer 4

@kris answer is helpful for me anyone want it in Objective-C.

Here is the code

-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews{
     [super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
     [self sizeHeaderToFit];
}

-(void)sizeHeaderToFit{
     UIView *headerView = self.tableView.tableHeaderView;
     [headerView setNeedsLayout];
     [headerView layoutIfNeeded];
     CGFloat height = [headerView systemLayoutSizeFittingSize:UILayoutFittingCompressedSize].height;
     CGRect frame = headerView.frame;
     frame.size.height = height;
     headerView.frame = frame;
     self.tableView.tableHeaderView = headerView;
}

Answer 5

In Xcode 10 you can set header and footer of section hight from "Size Inspector" tab

Answer 6

Just set the frame property of the tableHeaderView.