In UITableView, cell.detailTextLabel.text isn't working… why?

Question

In tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: I have the following:

cell.textLabel.text = @"label"; cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"detail"; 

The textLabel shows as expected, but the detailTextLabel doesn't appear at all, although there is no diagnostic. What I expected was that the "detail" text would appear in the cell on a second line, below the "normal" text, possibly with a smaller font size.

The same question is asked in another posting here and user "jbrennan" answered that the tableview cell style must be something other than UITableViewCellStylePlain. However, it seems there are only two possible styles, UITableViewCellStylePlain and UITableViewCellStyleGrouped. I get the same result with either (the detail label doesn't appear).

Is there another cell style that I'm not seeing in the documentation? Did UITableView change in the last update and detailTextLabel is no longer available? Do I have to do something extra to make it appear? Any suggestions?

I'm using xcode 3.2.5 and building for iPhone 4.2 Simulator.

Answer 1

Your initialization needs to be changed to this:

cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle 
                               reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];

I've emphasized and bolded the part you need to change.