How to find a cell textfield outside of a tableView delegate method?

Question

I have a custom tableView cell with a textfield. Now, I want to recognise the textField outside of the tableView delegate method. I tried this-

UIView *cell = textField;
[cell isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]];

but it's not working.

seems like you need whole cell, not just textfield. you need to provide more context for this... — Miknash, Oct 07 '15 at 13:44
Check below link once it might be useful to you https://stackoverflow.com/a/24246881/5184217 — Rajesh Dharani, Sep 05 '17 at 04:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '15 at 14:52

To get concrete cell from table view you need to know index path of this cell. Then you need to do:

NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];  //you should set your indexes of row and section instead of zeros
MyCustomCell *cell = [myTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

Now if text field is a property of your custom cell you can get it using cell.myTextField

For example:

UITextField *textField = cell.myTextField;

Now you can do what you want with it.

How to find a cell textfield outside of a tableView delegate method?

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