Adding Spacing Between Basic Table View Cells

Question

I have basic table view cells that I want to set some spacing between them.

I tried

cell.contentView.layoutMargins.top = 8

and

cell.layoutMargins.top = 8 

but that didn't work. I know I can create a custom cell, but I want to know how I can add margins this way.

EDIT:

Then I changed the cell style to custom:

and added a view so I can set up some constraints to it

but the results still the same, no spacing between cells, and it kinda ignored the custom view, i guess because it needs a custom class for the cell, but I don't want to do that.

Answer 1

You should not add spacing between cells themselves, but rather add a custom containerView to cell's contentView with a top and/or bottom constraints.