How can I disable the UITableView selection?

Question

When you tap a row in a UITableView, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing?

Answer 1

All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either:

Objective-C:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; 

or

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone]; 

Swift 2:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None 

Swift 3 and 4.x:

cell.selectionStyle = .none 

Further, make sure you either don't implement -tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it.

More info here and here