UITableView ContentInset and ContentOffset

Question

I'm having trouble with the contentInset property. I have a UITableView, with dynamic cell sizes (AutoLayout). I'm setting the contentInset property to leave some space above the top of the content. But I'm getting the following result:

The content is in blue, the content inset in purple. When the table view first appears, it is in the left situation. I can scroll to get to the right situation, that is working, but I would like the table view to appears directly as in the right illustration — which I thought would be the default behavior.

How can I achieve that?

Does this help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22020943/set-uitableview-content-inset-permanently — Rakesha Shastri, Jan 17 '19 at 12:00
@RakeshaShastri I saw that already and tried but it didn't work — Morpheus, Jan 17 '19 at 12:54

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:53

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Not sure if it's the best way but I fixed it by adding:

tableView.contentOffset.y = -70

after the line:

tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 70, left: 0, bottom: 50, right: 0)

answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:53

Morpheus

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 13:28

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you can scroll programmatically when the view loads.

tableView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: -70), animated: false)

answered Jan 17 '19 at 13:28

Cosneanu Cristian

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That's what I ended up doing, not very pretty though. I thought the scrollview would automatically adjust so that it's scrolled "to the top" directly – Morpheus Jan 17 '19 at 14:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:34

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This is how it can be fixed easily from the Storyboard:

Table View > Size Inspector > Content Insets: Never

answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:34

Gareth Miller

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I'm not using Storyboard, but I tried using scrollView.contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior, it didn't help – Morpheus Jan 17 '19 at 12:51

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:42

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You provide an UIEdgeInset object,

UIEdgeInsets(top: 50, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)

The top property shows the distance from top of content to top border of the area.

answered Jan 17 '19 at 12:42

Talha Ahmad Khan

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yeah this is what I'm doing – Morpheus Jan 17 '19 at 12:50

UITableView ContentInset and ContentOffset

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