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Asked: 2026-06-17T19:54:19+00:00

Here’s my situation: I’ve got a UISearchBar and a UITableView in a Navigation Controller.

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Here’s my situation: I’ve got a UISearchBar and a UITableView in a Navigation Controller. When the user taps in the search bar, the keyboard pops so the user can type a search string, as shown here:

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But the keyboard obscures the list, and so I want to make it so that if the user taps the table, the keyboard goes away, and I’m having a surprising amount of difficulty.

  1. If I use a TapGestureRecognizer, I can tell if the user taps anywhere, but then when they tap on the table, the normal table events don’t work.
  2. I tried something else (can’t remember what now), and I got the event if the user taps the table, but not tap and drag, which is common, and so that’s not quite enough.

What I want is something like a TouchDownInside event on the table itself, so I can dismiss the keyboard when the table gets user input of any kind, but this doesn’t seem to exist. What’s the best way to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    An easy solution would be to catch when the UITableView is scrolling, as the UITableView extends the UIScrollView you can look for the scrollViewDidScroll: and make the search bar resign the first responder to make the keyboard go away, same can be done with scrollViewWillBeginDragging: method

    - (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];
}

    Implement this on you UITableViewDelegate as it behaves as the delegate of your UITableView

    More information at

    http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uiscrollviewdelegate_protocol/

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