Question

Two UITableViewCell related questions:

1. In my custom UITableViewCell I loop through an array (of which I do not know how many objects it holds) and add a UILabel displaying some text for each object in that array.

This means I have to adjust the height of the cell so that these labels fit in. How can I do this?

2. When going into edit mode, I have the cells indent, however I do not want this. I have tried the following:

cell.shouldIndentWhileEditing = NO;

and

-(BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return NO;
}

Both sadly failed, I have I no idea why. How could I remedy this?

Answer 1

1. You can specify the height for every row with the delegate method [UITableViewDelegate tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath:].
   Just change what the method returns and the reload your table.

2. This method actually has nothing to do with the indendation of cell content:

   Asks the delegate whether the background of the specified row should be indented while the table view is in editing mode.

You can try to set indentationWidth but I never managed to make it work.
Fortunately, it’s easy to change everything you want in [UITableView layoutSubviews] method.
Example:

- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [super layoutSubviews];
    self.contentView.frame = self.bounds;
}