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Asked: 2026-06-03T15:13:41+00:00

Currently I have UITableViewCell’s that hold sometimes really long text (up to 50,000 pixels

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Currently I have UITableViewCell's that hold sometimes really long text (up to 50,000 pixels in height after drawing). However the UITableView delegate documentation says that cells shouldn’t be higher than 2009 pixels in height (any ideas why?).

It’s only the first section in my table view that has the really long cell, so instead of using a cell for the first section, I thought I’d create a UIScrollView, put a UITextView as the first “cell” and add it to the scrollView, and then add the tableView to the scroll view as well (under the textView). However, having a 50,000 px high UITextView is causing huge memory problems.

What are my options? I know I could use a UITextView that scrolls, but to have a scrollable UITextView with a tableView just causes complicated scrolling behavior. I want to mimic the scrolling of a tableView.

I didn’t know it would be an issue to have a 50,000 px high view in a UIScrollView. I thought that’s what UIScrollView's are for? Do I have any alternatives?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would seriously question the UI design where you must render text that large as part of a table cell. The best option would be to put a reasonably-sized summary in a cell with cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;, build a separate view for the long text, and let the user navigate to that view by clicking the disclosure indicator.

    As a side note, you could also put a scroll view inside the initial table cell (not all cells must be of the same type; you can make one with a scroll view in it, and use it for the cell at index zero). It’s not going to be as usable as the regular cell with a disclosure indicator, though.

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