UITableView separator line disappears when selecting cells in iOS7

Question

In my tableView I set a separator line between cells. I am allowing selection of multiple cells. Here\'s my code for setting selected cell background color:

Answer 1

For me it happened when I set programmatically:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

When i set this property in the storyboard it works fine.

Answer 2

This problem exists for single cell selection as well.

Another solution is to reload the table view, select followed by deselect:

self.selectedIndex = inIndexPath.row;
[inTableView reloadData];
[inTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:inIndexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
[inTableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:inIndexPath animated:YES];

This gets rid of a subtle graphical selection glitch I saw in Mark's solution.

Answer 3

I encountered this problem with IOS 13 and solved it in this way:

1. In tableView cell storyboard or xib file choose Selection NONE

2. In swift file of the cell override func:

   override func setHighlighted(_ highlighted: Bool, animated: Bool) {
   
       super.setHighlighted(highlighted, animated: animated)
   
       if highlighted {
           contentView.backgroundColor = .lightGray
       } else {
           contentView.backgroundColor = .clear
       }
   }
   

I wanted to get effect of regular selection like in previous IOS versions but if you want to get something else then customize the function with your colors.

Answer 4

Add this code at cell for row at indexpath

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
cell.textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

Answer 5

This'll just happen if you let iOS apply its own default selected cell style. Best work around I found so far is to override the selected property implementation:

in your cell subclass implementation:

    @synthesize selected = _selected;

in the initialization method:

    // problem actually is caused when you set following 
    // to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault, so:

    [self setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone]; 

overriding methods:

    - (BOOL)selected 
    {
        return _selected;
    }
    - (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated 
    {
        _selected = selected
        if (selected) {

            // apply your own selected style

        }
        else {

            // apply your own deselected style

        }
    }

Answer 6

I encountered this issue when I set my cell's selection style to none programatically, and then when I SELECT my table cells programatically.

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell: UITableViewCell!
    if tableView == self.jobLevelTableView {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellIdentifier", for: indexPath) as! CheckboxCell

        // for testing purposes
        let checked = true

        // I used M13Checkbox here, in case anybody was wondering
        cell.checkbox.setCheckState(checked ? .checked : .unchecked, animated: false) 

        if checked {
            tableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .none)
        }

        // CULPRIT
        cell.selectionStyle = .none
        return cell
    }

    cell = UITableViewCell()
    return cell
}

When I set the selection style on the storyboard (and removing the code equivalent), the problem went away!