Question

I am currently creating my own custom section headers but I have never dont any text editing via code.. and my new method that I am using to populate my custom header is doing some weird things as shown below

I would like to change the text to white and be slightly bolder and also make the white background transparent..

this is the code I am using to do this

- (UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section 
{
    UIView *headerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, tableView.bounds.size.width, 30)];
    [headerView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor grayColor]];

    // Add the label
    UILabel *headerLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.5, 20, 20)];

    // do whatever headerLabel configuration you want here


    headerLabel.text = [self tableView:tableView titleForHeaderInSection:section];
    [headerView addSubview:headerLabel];

    // Return the headerView
    return headerView;
}

I have tried this

[headerLabel.backgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

etc but its not working 🙁

Answer 1

I would like to change the text to white…

UILabel’s textColor property is your friend here.

And slightly bolder…

No problem! headerLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:mySize];

And make a white transparent background.

Whoa, whoa, that is the worst setter syntax ive ever seen!!! My lord, myLabel.backgroundColor is a getter, change:

[headerLabel.backgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

to:

[headerLabel setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

Lucky for you, using your syntax would have just sent a message to nil, which is defaulting the background color of your label to white.