When you tap a row in a UITableView
, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing?
All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell
instance using either:
Objective-C:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
or
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
Swift 2:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None
Swift 3 and 4.x:
cell.selectionStyle = .none
Further, make sure you either don't implement -tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it.
More info here and here
For me, the following worked fine:
tableView.allowsSelection = NO;
This means didSelectRowAt#
simply won't work. That is to say, touching a row of the table, as such, will do absolutely nothing. (And hence, obviously, there will never be a selected-animation.)
(Note that if, on the cells, you have UIButton
or any other controls, of course those controls will still work. Any controls you happen to have on the table cell, are totally unrelated to UITableView's ability to allow you to "select a row" using didSelectRowAt#
.)
To sum up what I believe are the correct answers based on my own experience in implementing this:
If you want to disable selection for just some of the cells, use:
cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
As well as preventing selection, this also stops tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: being called for the cells that have it set. (Credit goes to Tony Million for this answer, thanks!)
If you have buttons in your cells that need to be clicked, you need to instead:
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
and you also need to ignore any clicks on the cell in - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
.
If you want to disable selection for the whole table, use:
tableView.allowsSelection = NO;
(Credit to Paulo De Barros, thanks!)
Because I've read this post recently and it has helped me, I wanted to post another answer to consolidate all of the answers (for posterity).
So, there are actually 5 different answers depending on your desired logic and/or result:
1.To disable the blue highlighting without changing any other interaction of the cell:
[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
I use this when I have a UIButton - or some other control(s) - hosted in a UITableViewCell and I want the user to be able to interact with the controls but not the cell itself.
NOTE: As Tony Million noted above, this does NOT prevent tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
. I get around this by simple "if" statements, most often testing for the section and avoiding action for a particular section.
Another way I thought of to test for the tapping of a cell like this is:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
// A case was selected, so push into the CaseDetailViewController
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
if (cell.selectionStyle != UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone) {
// Handle tap code here
}
}
2.To do this for an entire table, you can apply the above solution to each cell in the table, but you can also do this:
[tableView setAllowsSelection:NO];
In my testing, this still allows controls inside the UITableViewCell
to be interactive.
3.To make a cell "read-only", you can simply do this:
[cell setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
4.To make an entire table "read-only"
[tableView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
5.To determine on-the-fly whether to highlight a cell (which according to this answer implicitly includes selection), you can implement the following UITableViewDelegate
protocol method:
- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
As of iOS 6.0, UITableViewDelegate
has tableView:shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath:
. (Read about it in the iOS Documentation.)
This method lets you mark specific rows as unhighlightable (and implicitly, unselectable) without having to change a cell's selection style, messing with the cell's event handling with userInteractionEnabled = NO
, or any other techniques documented here.
You can also disable selection of row from interface builder itself by choosing NoSelection
from the selection
option(of UITableView Properties) in inspector pane as shown in the below image