Question

I Have an UITableView with textfields in each row.

I want to access these textfields each in a different way like adding a picker view for one textfield, navigating to another view when clicked on one text field.

i know how to do it when these textfields are in a normalview but i never have done it before on tableview.

Please help.

Answer 1

Your question is where to put the code to handle user interaction with your table view cells. Well the proper place to do that is the didSelectRowAtIndexPath: method of your table view controller.

However, there are a few caveats.

• You need to add the UITextFieldDelegate protocol to your table view controller.
• You can distinguish between the active UITextFields with tags, as suggested in other answers.
• However, recycling the cells can lead to big confusion about the text fields. So make sure you update that id tag in the part of cellForRowAtIndexPath: that is not creating new cells.
• You should not use a UITextField when you want another controller to pop up. In this case, just use a UILabel or the provided textLabel property of UITableViewCell. Push another controller when the user selects the row.
• Only use a UITextField if you want the keyboard to pop up without leaving the table view.