Question

I have a rather simple question about TableView’s in iOS, is there a way to indent the contents of the cells in a tableview, say for example I have an array of strings, and I want to have them displayed on the ui as alternating series of text, it would look like a conversation log. eg.

I am Hercules
                     I am Delilah
If you are Delilah
             Then I am your lover

This without resorting to custom cells, however, if the custom cells is the only, can you please show me how/where to start?

TIA

mirage

Answer 1

Within your cellForRowAtIndexPath method, do something such as this:

if (indexPath.row % 2 == 0) {
  [cell.textLabel setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentLeft];
} else {
  [cell.textLabel setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentRight];
}

Updated with correct alignment, thanks paul polo