how to change the background colour in UITableViewStyleGrouped in iOS?

Question

I want to change the background colour of a cell inside UITableView from default white to something else. If the style is UITableViewStylePlain then its very easy and we can just do:

tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];

However, the same is not happening inside UITableViewStyleGrouped.

Can anyone kindly help me out ? Thanks.

possible duplicate of [Change iPhone tableview (style grouped) background color while preserving texture](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/933808/change-iphone-tableview-style-grouped-background-color-while-preserving-texture) — Jeremy W. Sherman, Jun 08 '11 at 17:33
Have a look at this post! [#933992](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/933808/change-iphone-tableview-style-grouped-background-color-while-preserving-texture/933992#933992) — Raphael, Jun 08 '11 at 12:34

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '13 at 08:39

When using UITableViewStylePlain, tableView do not have a backgroundView, but when it comes to UITableViewStyleGrouped, we can see tableView's backgroundView is not nil. So the solution is simple, set this backgroundView to nil, and it's done.

tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
tableView.backgroundView = nil;

And you can see the blackColor background now!

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '13 at 12:28

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[cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackcolor]];

try this and you can change cell background color.

answered Mar 23 '13 at 12:28

Ahsan · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-08T16:44:08.553

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What we can do is use an UIImageView that will span the whole of the cell. Couldn't find a better way to do this. Thanks.

edited Jun 08 '11 at 16:44

answered Jun 08 '11 at 16:11

Ahsan

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how to change the background colour in UITableViewStyleGrouped in iOS?

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