Swift ios connect multiple items to the same IBOutlet

Question

I wonder if its OK to connect multiple items to the same IBOutlet? In my tableView I have setup two cells and given them a uniqe identifier.

But I have connected the label in each cell to the same IBOutlet in my custom UITableViewCell class.

class SearchSubCatTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {

  
    @IBOutlet weak var subCatTitle: UILabel!

So I have two labels connected to @IBOutlet weak var subCatTitle: UILabel!

This all works fine when I am testing the app but can it cause any problems?

Answer 1

Yes, this is ok as long as you don't plan on doing any operations on those labels.

The correct way to do it, is by creating an array IBOutlet:

@IBOutlet var collectionOfLabels:[UILabel]?

• Connect all your labels to this labels array outlet.

• Then access the labels via the array.

Answer 2

This may cause a problem when you will try to perform some operations on the label text data.I would suggest you to have a look at IBOutlet Collections.You can find nice tutorial here.