How to disable UITableViewCell highlighting?

Question

I have a dark gray view background with a transparent tableview. I'm using the following code to try and stop cell highlight when a cell is clicked. It works except right when the cell is initially clicked, I see a highlight. I then transition to another scene after that. When I come back, the cell is not highlighted.

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    var selectedCell:UITableViewCell = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath)!
    selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
    tableView.deselectRowAtIndexPath(indexPath, animated: true)
}

How do I disable the initial cell highlighting that is still going on?

Set `cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;` follow this link: [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11920156/custom-uitableviewcell-selection-style) — Chandan, Jul 20 '16 at 18:55

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:59

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Set UITableViewCell selection style none

cell.selectionStyle = .None

answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:59

Sameer Subba

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This then requires a double click to select. – markhorrocks Mar 27 '17 at 20:20

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:55

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UITableViewDelegate has methods to deal with cell highlights, probably tableView(_:shouldHighlightRowAt:) is what you are looking for

Check the documentation for the other methods

answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:55

Leonardo

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 27 '17 at 21:01

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I found that the other answers did not work for me as they required a double click to select. This did work.

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true)

answered Mar 27 '17 at 21:01

markhorrocks

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This question requests that the highlight not appear when clicked. This answer does not prevent that visual effect, and it accentuates the visual impact when the selection -> unselected, because it used `animated: true` – benc Jul 26 '23 at 15:32

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:59

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The simplest way to prevent highlighting is setting selectionStyle to None. Here's how you can achieve this :

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    var cell:UITableViewCell = self.tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell") as UITableViewCell
    cell.selectionStyle = .None
    return cell
}

answered Jul 20 '16 at 18:59

AnthoPak

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NOTE: this is a fast and easy workaround with stock table/cell config, because it is just mapping the highlighted's visual state to the (default) unselected visual state. If you want to truly disable highlighting's events, see answer -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/38488665/2910 – benc Jul 26 '23 at 15:38

How to disable UITableViewCell highlighting?

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