Change the color of empty table view cells?

Question

I changed the color of cells from the storyboard (did not use any code) but as you can see in this image:

empty cells stay white as default. I want to change those empty cells to red also but I am having trouble figuring out. I also in my code setting cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; with no success.

Answer 1

You just set tableView's backgroundColor: yourTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

Answer 2

For others who like to use Storyboard, there's not a specific setting to set this, but in the Table View in Storyboard, you can go to the Identity Inspector, enter a "backgroundColor" and set it as the Color type in User Defined Runtime Attributes:

Not sure why this isn't a setting in storyboard, but this works!