Setting the style of UITableView section headers

Question

I'm working with iOS 5 and have dynamically generated cells in a table (2 sections of 3 rows each). Each section has a header that is also dynamically generated using the titleForHeaderInSection call.

I also have an image set as the background for the table that makes the default color of the section headers hard to read. I haven't found a way to change the color of the section headers (or shadow color, font, text size, etc for that matter) either through the Storyboard interface or programmatically! Please help!

Answer 1

This also works in iOS5+. It applies to all of the section headers and footers in the tableview and suited my needs.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITableViewHeaderFooterView class], nil] setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"MyFont" size:8]];
}

Dan

Answer 2

You can modify the font size/color/etc by creating your own view for the section header using the method tableView:viewForHeaderInSection:

There's an example of this technique here