Table View Cell Default Background Color - what sets the default colour?

Question

When I load a TableView the default cell background color of the highlighted cell is light grey. How and where do I change this to another color?

are you loading from nib or through you are trying to create the instance of cell? — Rajesh, Mar 04 '14 at 06:51
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418189/iphone-uitableviewcell-changing-background-color-of-selected-cell — Hamdullah shah, Mar 04 '14 at 06:55
Will work through these later - many thanks - it's the highlighted colour not the general background. When I press a cell I can dictate it with code like UIView *selectionView = [[UIView alloc] init]; selectionView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor]; cell.selectedBackgroundView = selectionView; but it's the first time it loads that it defaults to gray. — Edward Hasted, Mar 04 '14 at 07:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 07:29

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We can set selected backgroundView in this method

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

with thesse lines

UIView *selectionView = [[UIView alloc] init];
selectionView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
cell.selectedBackgroundView = selectionView;

answered Mar 04 '14 at 07:29

sehaswaran

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No - that routine works fine when you move cell focus after the page has loaded. My questions is how you alter the background colour of the selected cell when the page loads. The default is gray and I want to change it to say yellow. – Edward Hasted Mar 05 '14 at 09:34
Getting muddled: - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath paints the screen when the page loads and - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath deals with each time you press a new cell. Apologies – Edward Hasted Mar 05 '14 at 10:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '14 at 09:07

Set selectionStyle for cell in method:

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

// Code to initialize your cell
    cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue;
    return cell;

}

Table View Cell Default Background Color - what sets the default colour?

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