Question

I have a UITableView with 3 sections. 2 of the sections are fixed in that when in edit mode, no additional rows can be added or deleted, therefore only 1 of the 3 sections show the green plus/red minuses, however the rows in all three section animate to a narrow width to accommodate the plus and minus for the single section that can be edited, the other 2 revealing only space.

Is there any way to prevent these 2 sections from doing the narrow animating thing? This would only be for cosmetic purposes but I think it’ll look better.

Thanks

Answer 1

I was able to find the answer.

From the UITableViewDataSource Protocol Reference documentation, under canEditRowAtIndexPath, “Rows that are not editable … do no indentation for the deletion or insertion control.”

Therefore, the following worked:

-(BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if (indexPath.section == 1) {   
    return YES;
    } else {
    return NO;
    }

}