Select First Row as default in UITableView

Question

I have an application that is viewbased and I am adding a tableview as a subview to the main view. I have taken UITableViewDelegate to respond the table methods. Everything is working fine, but I want to select the first row or UITableView as default selected(Highlighted).

Please help me, with what code I need and where I need to put it.

Answer 1

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    NSIndexPath *indexPath=[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
    [myTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES  scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionBottom];
}

The best way to use this in your code, if you want to select any row by default, use in viewDidAppear.

Answer 2

Swit 3.0 updated Solution

let indexPath = IndexPath(row: 0, section: 0)
tblView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .bottom)

Answer 3

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
    {

       [super viewWillAppear:animated];

     // assuming you had the table view wired to IBOutlet myTableView

        // and that you wanted to select the first item in the first section

        [myTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0] animated:NO scrollPosition:0];
    }

Answer 4

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.detailViewController = (DetailViewController *)[[self.splitViewController.viewControllers lastObject] topViewController];

    if([UIDevice currentDevice].userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad){
        NSIndexPath* indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
        [self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop];
        [self tableView:self.tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    }
}

Answer 5

Swift 4 Update:

func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    let indexPath = IndexPath(row: 0, section: 0)
    myTableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .bottom)
}

Change row and section values if you want to select any other row in a different section.