'didSelectRowAt' is not being called

Question

i have a question about the UITableView delegate function didSelectRowAt. Everything is working fine but unfortunately the didSelectRowAt is not called. I read in some other stackoverflow question about the problem and tried some solutions out but none of them works for me. I made a subclass of the tableview which is the delegate himself:

class MyTableView : UITableView, UITableViewDelegate{

    override func awakeFromNib() {

        super.awakeFromNib()

        separatorStyle = .none

        backgroundView = nil
        backgroundColor = UIColor.clear

        isScrollEnabled = false

        delegate = self
        isEditing = false
        allowsSelection = true

    }


//    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didHighlightRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
//       
//    this is working        
//
//    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

        print("not called")

    }    

} 

So all subclasses of MyTableView will implement the datasource stuff and this also working fine (in case somehow will mentioned this).

The strange thing is that didHighlightRowAt is called, so the delegate somehow works. Only the didSelectRowAt which I want is not being called.

By the way there aren't any UITapGestureRecognizer.

Can somehow give me any advice here. Are there properties which are wrong?

Answer 1

If you have a parent view with gesture recognizer assigned to it you'll need to do something like this:

self.tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: action)
if let tapGestureRecognizer = self.tapGestureRecognizer {
  tapGestureRecognizer.cancelsTouchesInView = false
  self.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
}

Once you told the gesture recognizer to stop canceling touches, your UITableView starts reacting on taps as normal

Answer 2

Please check TableView's cell allowsSelection.

tableView.allowsSelection = true

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Edit:

Check:

• tableView.allowsSelection

• cell.selectionStyle

• User Interaction Enabled