Question

What’s the simplest way to make UISearchDisplayController display exactly the same cells (formatting, height, fonts, colors, etc) as the original tableView that it searched on?
or simply put – make it dequeue de same cell identifier?

I am using a the standard subclassed UITableViewController + UISearchDisplayController solution, and prefer to stick to it.

thanks

Answer 1

I actually found the simplest way.

All I had to do is change the default cellForRowAtIndexPath second line of code and add the “self.” to tableView to the dequeue cell identifier – this way the the cell style which is in the storyboard always gets dequeued and not the (non-existant) one from the searchResultsController.tableView

Also implement heightForRowAtIndexPath that will return the same height without any check (searchresults table or self.table – we want the same height)

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    return 62.0f;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"PhraseCell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [self.tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    //                       ^^^^ NEW

    //...