How do I disable the delete operation for certain row in a UITableView?

Question

I know about using setEditing: to enable the editing mode of UITableView.

But I prefer to disable the operation for some certain rows (enable other rows).

Is it possible?

Thanks,

interdev

Answer 1

Implement the -tableView:canEditRowAtIndexPath: method in your data source. Return NO for those rows.

Answer 2

this post sum it up perfectly, Is there any way to hide "-" (Delete) button while editing UITableView

in case you don't want to read the post the gist is on the row you don't want to delete but want to allow move row: set edit style for row to UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone; 
}