Why doesn't UITableViewCell background color work (set in interface builder)?
It's a bit late, but I just ran into this issue... Setting the background color on the contentView
works fine:
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
What worked for me is creating my own UIView object to be set as the background view of the UITableViewCell. In the cellForRowAtIndexPath:
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
UIView* bgview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)];
bgview.opaque = YES;
bgview.backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor];
[cell setBackgroundView:bgview];
Trying to set the background colour of the UITableViewCell itself is not how you should be doing it. A table cell has a collection of five useful views you can access, one of which is backgroundView
.
Recommended reading:
http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/04/easy-custom-uitableview-drawing.html
and then:
http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/12/uitableview-construction-drawing-and.html