Cannot change UITableView blue highlight color

Question

I set:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray;

and use the code to highlight a row:

NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection: 0];
[self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone

The highlight color always blue even I set to gray. If I set:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

it works fine and no highlight. But just not work with:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray;

It just show blue color instead of gray color. Any idea? Thanks.

Answer 1

Note that in iOS 7, using

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue];

will not work as expected, because in iOS 7 this is now gray, even if you pass the constant above. See:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UITableViewCell_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/c/tdef/UITableViewCellSelectionStyle

Answer 2

Just add this in your method its work for me

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{ 
....
UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(76.0/255.0) green:(161.0/255.0) blue:(255.0/255.0) alpha:1.0]; // perfect color suggested by @mohamadHafez
bgColorView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
cell.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView;
....
return cell;
}

if you have any question feel free to ask

Answer 3

Implement it as follows:-

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *) indexPath {

     [cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray];       
}

OR

Set the selectedBackgroundView's color as what you want in your custom tableview cell (which is a subclass of UITableViewCell):

UIView * selectedBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.frame];
[selectedBackgroundView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]]; // set color here
[self setSelectedBackgroundView:selectedBackgroundView];

or you can configure it in -tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method:

//...
[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:selectedBackgroundView];
//...