Question

I want to create a UITableView with varying row heights, and I’m trying to accomplish this by creating UILabels inside the UITableViewCells.

Here’s my code so far:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {     static NSString *MyIdentifier = @'EntryCell';     UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];     if (cell == nil) {         cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:MyIdentifier] autorelease];     }      UILabel *textView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 0, 300, 40)];     textView.numberOfLines = 0;     textView.text = [entries objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]];     [cell.contentView addSubview:textView];     [textView release];      return cell; } 

This gives me 2 lines of text per cell. However, each ‘entry’ has a different number of lines, and I want the UITableViewCells to resize automatically, wrapping text as necessary, without changing the font size.

[textView sizeToFit] and/or [cell sizeToFit] don’t seem to work.

Here’s how I want the UITableView to look:

---------------- Lorem ipsum ---------------- Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum ---------------- Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum ---------------- Lorem ipsum ---------------- Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum ---------------- 

Does anyone know how to do this properly?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The UITableViewDelegate defines an optional method heightForRowAtIndexPath, which will get you started. You then need to use sizeWithFont.

There is some discussion of your precise problem here:

http://www.v2ex.com/2008/09/18/how-to-make-uitableviewcell-have-variable-height/

Text sizing was also discussed in this thread