How to remove cell from static UITableView created in Storyboard

Question

This should be easy, but I'm having trouble.

I have a static UITableView with a cell that I would like to remove programmatically if it's not needed.

I have a IBOutlet for it

IBOutlet UITableViewCell * cell15;

And I can remove it by calling

cell15.hidden = true;

This hides it, but leaves a blank space where the cell used to be and I can't get rid of it.

Perhaps a hack would be to change the height of it to 0?

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath
{
//what would I put here?
}

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

You can't really deal with this in the datasource since with static tables you don't even implement the datasource methods. The height is the way to go.

Try this:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{ 
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if (cell == cell15 && cell15ShouldBeHidden) //BOOL saying cell should be hidden
        return 0.0;
    else
        return [super tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; 
} 

Update

It appears that, under autolayout, this may not be the best solution. There is an alternative answer here which may help.

Answer 2

You can use tableView:willDisplayCell and tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath with the cell identifier to show/hide static tableview cells, but yo must implement heightForRowAtIndexPath referring to super, not to self. These two methods work fine for me:

(void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
if ([cell.reuseIdentifier.description isEqualToString:@"cellCelda1"]) {
    [cell setHidden:YES];
    }
}

and

(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [super tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    if ([cell.reuseIdentifier.description isEqualToString:@"cellCelda1"]) {
        return 0;
}
    return cell.frame.size.height;
}