Question

I have UITextView subviews inside a UITableViewCell. When user taps on the cell I select it, i.e. I switch the background image to selected state. The UITextView becomes first responder, but the cursor is hidden. When I disable the cell selection the UITextView shows a cursor without issues.

How to select the cell and start editing the UITextView with a visible cursor? 🙂

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
    if (selected && ![textView isFirstResponder]) {
        [textView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
        [textView becomeFirstResponder];
    } else {
        [textView resignFirstResponder];
        [textView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
    }
}

Answer 1

Cell stopped to hide cursor, when i set.

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

But after that, cell also stopped use selectedBackgroundView. So I set my image to highlighted state of backgroundView.

cell.backgroundView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"input_up.png"] highlightedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"input_up_act.png"]] autorelease]; 

And switched image in setSelected:animated:

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
    if (selected && ![textView isFirstResponder]) {
        [textView setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
        [textView becomeFirstResponder];
    } else {
        [textView resignFirstResponder];
        [textView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
    }

    [(UIImageView *)self.backgroundView setHighlighted:selected];
}