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My goal is to create a custom UITableViewCell which contains 2 UILabels. One is the title and one is the detail. The detail label should allow for 3 rows of text.

So I went on and created a custom table view cell in storyboard. I also created a subclass of UITableViewCell and linked the two together.

I the added two UILabel to the cell in storyboard and placed them where i wanted them to be and linked them to their coresponding outlets in teh subclass. Since the content of the labels varies I wanted to align the text vertically to the top. As I understand the only way to do this is by calling the sizeToFit method on the label. I execute this under in the sub class of UITableViewCell:

-(void)layoutSubviews {
     [super layoutSubviews];
     [self.detailTextLabel sizeToFit];
}

So far everything seems fine and the text in the detailTextLabel is aligned as it should. Although when i satrt interacting with the cell, for example slide my finger over it so the delete button appears, the detailTextLabel will change size to the size that was set in storyboard. This causes the text to be misaligned. Similar things happen when i select the cell and change to another view and the return to the table view via a tab bar

My question is: Is there any way of creating this custom cell differently using storyboard or is my only alterative to create everything programtically?

Regard, Christian

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Maybe you should take a look at this if you still want to vertically align your text in your UILabel without sizeToFit (who will resize it when you will interact with your cell).

About your question, I think you can create your custom cell from a xib file like this.

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  • Thanks for the reply. You are right, one alternative would be to use xib file. However I was trying to stick storyboard. I was able to solve the above problem by using a standard UITableViewCell with the "subtitle" style. Then i changed the detailTextLabel.numberOfRows to equal 0. I then called the sizeToFit on detailTextLabel. All this under layoutSubviews. – Christian R Jul 04 '12 at 19:21