Subview of UITableViewcell disappear when UItableViewcell is highlighted,anyway to fix it?

Question

I'm working with RESIDEMENU,and trying to add a line between cells of LeftMenuViewController,here is my code:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
 static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"Cell";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    cell.textLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:21];
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
    cell.selectedBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] init];
}

NSArray *titles = @[@"Home", @"Calendar", @"Profile", @"Settings", @"Log Out"];
NSArray *images = @[@"IconHome", @"IconCalendar", @"IconProfile", @"IconSettings", @"IconEmpty"];
cell.textLabel.text = titles[indexPath.row];
cell.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:images[indexPath.row]];
UIView * lineView= [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 0, cell.contentView.bounds.size.width, 3)];
lineView.backgroundColor=[UIColor redColor];

[cell.contentView addSubview:lineView];

return cell;
}

I can see these lines at first, but when I touch any cell, the cell is highlighted ,and the line of this cell disappear weirdly.any way to fix it?

snapshot before : enter image description here

snapshot when click a cell: enter image description here

I have found the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/q/6745919/4975761 — wj2061, Jul 20 '15 at 18:19

Alaeddine · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-20T19:16:02.147

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UITableViewCell changes the background color of all sub views when cell is selected or highlighted.

You have three options :

No selection style

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

Subclass UITableViewCell and overriding Tableview cell's setSelected:animated and/or setHighlighted:animated

Add the line as a layer

CALayer* layer = [CALayer layer];
layer.frame = CGRectMake(10, 0, cell.contentView.bounds.size.width, 3);
layer.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor].CGColor;
[cell.contentView.layer  addSublayer:layer];

edited Jul 20 '15 at 19:16

answered Jul 20 '15 at 18:00

Alaeddine

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Neither cell.backgroundView nor cell.selectedBackgroundView works. – wj2061 Jul 20 '15 at 18:08
@JunWang I have updated the answer, I have testes the the third solution and it works fine – Alaeddine Jul 20 '15 at 18:35
Thank you very much, this is the easiest way to solve this problem. – wj2061 Jul 20 '15 at 19:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '15 at 03:13

Another workaround is overwriting setBackgroundColor: and expose similar method to change its backgroundColor.

@interface

- (void)setPersistentBackgroundColor:(UIColor*)color;

@implementation

- (void)setPersistentBackgroundColor:(UIColor*)color
{
    super.backgroundColor = color;
}

- (void)setBackgroundColor:(UIColor *)color
{
    // [super setBackgroundColor:color];
    // prohibit from changing its background color.
}

Subview of UITableViewcell disappear when UItableViewcell is highlighted,anyway to fix it?

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