UITableViewCell going black when selected programmatically

Question

I was wondering why this code would give me black UITableViewCells when I set the selected property ON. If I do that, the content of the cell turns completely black, and I h

Answer 1

I was having the same problem and fixed it by moving the cell.selected = YES into tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath instead.

I think it might be related to the note at the bottom of the UITableViewCell docs about changes to background color requiring use of tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath (presumably selected sets the background color).