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iOS

Posted by Kevin Zoltany
Kevin Zoltany
16,282 Points

Need help with table view background (Closed)

I'm building an app with a tabbed view and in this app I use a table view for the first page and I changed the background of the table but when I create a new list item in the table the background and the font color doesn't change to what I set it to.

here is a picture of the problem: http://snag.gy/RcHYx.jpg

Thank you

1 Answer

Gregory Serfaty
Gregory Serfaty
37,140 Points
Gregory Serfaty
Gregory Serfaty
37,140 Points

Try to put in your method tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

[cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

Kevin Zoltany
Kevin Zoltany
16,282 Points

i'm currently not using a method to set the background color i'm just using interface builder.

Kevin Zoltany
Kevin Zoltany
16,282 Points

okay never mind I added to my cell creation method 

    cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()

and it worked. The background color of the cell is the same color as the table but then how to I change the font color?

Kevin Zoltany
Kevin Zoltany
16,282 Points

sorry about this but thanks for your help in the end I came up with this.

let fontColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

    cell.detailTextLabel?.textColor = fontColor
    cell.textLabel?.textColor = fontColor

    cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()