Question

I have a UITableView of custom UITableViewCells which looks like this:

[ CELL 0
    [ description ]
    [ dynamic content type 1 ]
    [ dynamic content type 2 ]
    [ dynamic content type 3 ]
 ]
 [ CELL 1
    [ description ]
    [ dynamic content type 1 ]
    [ dynamic content type 3 ]
 ]
 [ CELL 2
    [ description ]
    [ dynamic content type 2 ]
 ]
 [ ... and so on ... ]

Since the [description] part is already pretty complex I decided to use Interface Builder to design it and at add the [dynamic content] in the cellForRowAtIndexPath programmatically with [cell addSubview:...]. My problem is now, that I set a default height for my custom UITableViewCell in Interface Builder, but when I add my [dynamic content] (which might range between 0..3) I have different cells with different heights.

One thing is of course to calculate the total height and change the return value in heightForRowAtIndexPath, but how do I change the height value of my actual cell (which was loaded from a nib file with a fixed height)?

Answer 1

Why don’t you update the bounds of the cell in cellForRowAtIndexPath (where you already add the dynamic contents)?