Question

I have a UITableViewController A that is pushing UITableViewController B onto the stack.

In A i have the code:

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Trending" 
                                                                                     style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain 
                                                                                    target:self 
                                                                                    action:@selector(backButtonClicked:)];

backButtonClicked: is also implemented.

B has the title Trending, but when I click it, it doesn’t ever reach backButtonClicked:

Why is this?

Answer 1

Try either setting the delegate:

[navigationController setDelegate:self];

Or using the left button. Sometimes the back button doesn’t work with certain views and I have had to use the left button instead:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem =  [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Trending" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(backButtonClicked:)];

Also, you can try setting B’s button item instead of A:

viewControllerB.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem =  [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Trending" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(backButtonClicked:)];