How to change blue highlight color when a cell is selected

Question

I know it's probably a duplicate, but I want to know the best and the fastest way to change the blue highlight color when a cell is selected.

Of curse, I already tried (and it works) the way which consist in change the background color when the cell is selected (like this thread) but I don't like this way, I would prefer to really change this highlight color.

Any link or idea ? Thanks.

You can give selectedBackgrounndView to your tablecell. This is the most right approach to do it. — Divyu, May 22 '13 at 08:37
The blue color is relative to a `selectedBackgroundView` property ? — Lucien, May 22 '13 at 08:41
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2553746/how-to-change-the-blue-highlight-color-of-a-uitableviewcell — Valentin Shamardin, May 22 '13 at 08:43
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1998775/uitableview-cell-selected-color — iSaalis, May 22 '13 at 08:44

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '13 at 08:42

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inside tableview's

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

Create a uiimageview and change it's background color to your desired color

if (cell == nil) {
    UIImageView *bgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:cell.frame];
    bgView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
    cell.selectedBackgroundView = bgView;
}

answered May 22 '13 at 08:42

manujmv

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@Lucien apply this answer .it is perfect. – Prince Kumar Sharma May 22 '13 at 08:51
Yes, I didn't watch this [thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1998775/uitableview-cell-selected-color), and the best answer (for me) is not the one applied. – Lucien May 22 '13 at 08:54
Hum it's a good answer but what if I want to keep the tint effect ? :/ – Lucien May 22 '13 at 08:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '13 at 08:48

If you are creating your table view cell using nib, then in attributes inspector of cell, you can see a attribute "selection". set this to none.

if ur creating programmatically, then set your cell as

yourCell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '13 at 08:43

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First you have to create a view with same size of the cell. Apply background color to that view. Then set the view as the selected background of your cell in cellForRowAtIndexpath delegate method.

[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:yourView];

answered May 22 '13 at 08:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '13 at 08:51

Write these line in this method

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath



if (cell == nil) 
{
    cell.selectedBackgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

    UIImageView *bgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:cell.frame];
    bgView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

    cell.selectedBackgroundView  = bgView;
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 07:32

You can assign new UIView to cell's selectedBackgroundView with desired color. Swift 3

  override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "departmentCell", for: indexPath)

        let selectedView = UIView(frame: cell.frame)
        selectedView.backgroundColor = ColorKit.cellSelectionColor
        cell.selectedBackgroundView = selectedView



        return cell
    }

How to change blue highlight color when a cell is selected

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