Getting all subviews for a UIScrollView

Question

I need to get an array of all the subviews in a UIScrollView. Right now I'm using

NSArray *subviews = [myScrollView subviews];

but this seems to only be returning the subviews that are visible at the time the code is run. I need all the subviews in the whole extent of the UIScrollView, even those that are currently hidden (as in off screen). How would I get that?

Essentially, I'm looking for something like the contentSize property of a UIScrollView, except instead of returning just the size of the UIScrollView if it were big enough to display all of it's content, I want it to return the content itself.

EDIT: I think I've figured it out: the scroll view this isn't working for is actually a UITableView - and I think it's deque-ing the cells that are off screen on me, and that's why they aren't showing up. I'm going to do some testing to confirm.

Answer 1

Try with following code its working for me.

for(UIView * subView in myScrollView.subviews ) // here write Name of you ScrollView.
{ 
     // Here You can Get all subViews of your myScrollView.
    // But For Check subview is specific UIClass such like label, button, textFiled etc.. write following code (here checking for example UILabel class).

        if([subView isKindOfClass:[UILabel class]]) // Check is SubView Class Is UILabel class?
        {
            // You can write code here for your UILabel;
        }
}

Answer 2

tl;dr

It turns out that

NSArray *subviews = [myScrollView subviews];

will indeed return all the subviews in a UIScrollView *myScrollView, even if they are off-screen.

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The Details

The problem I was actually having was that the scroll view I was trying to use this on was actually a UITableView, and when a UITableViewCell in a UITableView goes off-screen, it actually gets removed from the UITableView - so by the time I was calling subviews, the cells I was looking for were no longer in the scroll view.

My workaround was to build all of my UITableViewCells in a separate method called by my viewDidLoad, then put all of those cells into an array. Then, instead of using subviews, I just used that array. Of course, doing it this way hurts the performance a little (in cellForRowAtIndexPath you just return the cell from the array, which is slower than the dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier method that is typically used), but it was the only way I could find to get the behavior I needed.