disable the uitableview highlighting but allow the selection of individual cells

Question

when you tap on a cell the row gets selected and highlighted.Now what i want to do is disable the highlighting but allow the selection.Is there a way around it.There is ques

Answer 1

You can set the selection property of the cell itself in the storyboard

Answer 2

Change UITableViewCell's selectedBackgroundView color to transparent.

    let clearView = UIView()
    clearView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor() // Whatever color you like
    UITableViewCell.appearance().selectedBackgroundView = clearView

or to set for a specific cell:

cell.backgroundView = clearView

Answer 3

You can just set the cell's selection style to "None" from Storyboard:

Or from code:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

For Swift 3:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none

For Swift 4 & above:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Answer 4

For Swift 3.0:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Answer 5

For Swift:

UITableViewCell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None;

Or when you subclass a cell in swift:

class CustomCell : UITableViewCell {

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
        selectionStyle = .None
    }

}

Answer 6

For Swift 5 the best way is:

cell.selectionStyle = .none