Question

I have a custom UITableViewCell that has 2 buttons and a label on it. The problem is that willSelectRowAtIndexPath only gets called when I click right above the bottom of a cell.

I set User Interaction Enabled to true for the UITableViewCell. This allows the buttons I have in my cell to be clickable.

If I set it to false, I willSelectRowAtIndexPath gets called when I click anywhere in the cell but the buttons no longer work.

Please help!

Answer 1

I am not sure if the button can let that happen automatically when enabled. However we can let the cell know that it was selected.

- (IBAction)respondToClick:(id)sender {
    CustomTableViewCell *customCell = (CustomTableViewCell*)sender.superview;

    // You can signal the cell to select itself (will not send the delegate message)
    [customCell setSelected:YES animated:NO];

    // Alternately this can be done but I don't recommend
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [myTableView indexPathForCell:customCell];
    if ( myTableView.delegate && [myTableView.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(tableView:willSelectRowAtIndexPath:)] ) {
        [myTableView.delegate tableView:myTableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    }
}