A UITableViewCell comes "pre-built" with a UILabel as its one and only subview after you've init'ed it. I'd really like to change the background color of said label, but no matter what I do the color does not change. The code in question:
UILabel* label = (UILabel*)[cell.contentView.subviews objectAtIndex:0];
label.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
label.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
label.opaque = YES;
Your code snippet works fine for me, but it must be done after the cell has been added to the table and shown, I believe. If called from the initWithFrame:reuseIdentifier:
, you'll get an exception, as the UILabel
subview has not yet been created.
Probably the best solution is to add your own UILabel
, configured to your standards, rather than relying on this (very rickety) path to the built-in one.
This doesn't work because the UITableViewCell sets its label backgroundColors in the layoutSubviews method.
If you want to change the color of the built-in textLabel or detailTextLabel, subclass the UITableViewCell and override layoutSubviews. Call the super implementation, THEN change the backgroundColor property to what you want.
- (void) layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
self.textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}
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