access tableView header added using storyboard

Question

I have a tableView in which I have a header view that I added using drag and drop. I want to hide it in device portrait mode and show it in landscape mode. I applied the orientation condition in the heighForHeaderInSection method and returned height 0 when in portrait mode and 70 when in landscape but it did not work as expected and added a new header space in my tableView.

How can I access the header I created in the storyboard?

Share your relevant code so we can get an idea regarding it. — Dimple, Feb 28 '20 at 06:46
Have a look at it. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7841167/table-header-views-in-storyboards — Abdul Karim Khan, Feb 28 '20 at 06:46
@AbdulKarimKhan that's exactly how I added my headerView but I cannot find anything in this post that describes how to resize it or access it. — Arsh Bhullar, Feb 28 '20 at 06:52
@ArshBhullar Here you go https://stackoverflow.com/questions/341256/how-to-resize-a-tableheaderview-of-a-uitableview — Abdul Karim Khan, Feb 28 '20 at 07:01
@AbdulKarimKhan you want me to call heightForHeaderInSection method or do tableView.sectionHeaderHeight = 0 ?? — Arsh Bhullar, Feb 28 '20 at 08:47

RJ168 · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-28T09:50:34.173

Even though your View object is acting like TableView header but still you can control it with IBOutlet connection. Add an IBOutlet in your UIViewController like following

@IBOutlet weak var tableHeader: UIView!

and add following orientation method to hide/unhide the view with frame change.

override func viewWillTransition(to size: CGSize, with coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
      if UIDevice.current.orientation.isLandscape {
        self.tableHeader.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.tableHeader.frame.width, height: 0)
      } else {
        self.tableHeader.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.tableHeader.frame.width, height: 40)
      }
  }

access tableView header added using storyboard

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