Question

I have a table with a few rows, and the place holder text for all is the same. How can I programmatically change the placeholder text of only the first one?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to run an if statement to check the index of the cell. 0 is the first index, so you would need to check to see if the row is 0.

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
       static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell"; 
       UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
       if (cell == nil) {
           cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
       }
       if (indexPath.row == 0) 
           cell.textLabel.text = @"First Cell";
       else
           cell.textLabel.text = @"Not First Cell";
}