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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:48:57+00:00

I’m using XCode 4.2 and have built my UI using Storyboards. I need to

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I’m using XCode 4.2 and have built my UI using Storyboards. I need to create a view that has content above and below a UITableView and I can achieve this by using a UIViewController. A UITableViewController does not let you add content above or below the table. You can use the table header/footer but that doesn’t work for what I would like to achieve.

I now have a UIViewController with a UITableView embedded in it. I can adjust the height and width of the UITableView accordingly which provides me the UI layout that I am looking for.

I can customize the static cells in the UITableView but when I try to build I get the following error:

Illegal Configuration: Static table views are only valid when embedded in UITableViewController instances

My question is how are others getting around this? Creating a tableview with static cells and laying them out visually is very nice but apparently that is not allowed for some reason that I cannot understand. I can’t switch to a UITableViewController because of my visual layout requirements.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are right. In storyboard, you cannot have a tableView with static cells embedded in a viewController. One way around it (I have not tried it myself, though, so I am not sure if it works) can be that you create an instance of UITableViewController in storyboard with static cells. Add an instance of UIView to your viewController, and then programmatically load the tableView of the UITableViewController into the UIView of your viewController.

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