UITableView Cell selected Color?

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I have created a custom UITableViewCell. The table view is showing data fine. What I am stuck in is when user touches cell of tableview, then I want to show the background color of the cell other than the default [blue color] values for highlighting the selection of cell. I use this code but nothing happens:

cell.selectedBackgroundView.backgroundColor=[UIColor blackColor];
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34 Answers

I think you were on the right track, but according to the class definition for selectedBackgroundView:

The default is nil for cells in plain-style tables (UITableViewStylePlain) and non-nil for section-group tables UITableViewStyleGrouped).

Therefore, if you're using a plain-style table, then you'll need to alloc-init a new UIView having your desired background colour and then assign it to selectedBackgroundView.

Alternatively, you could use:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray;

if all you wanted was a gray background when the cell is selected. Hope this helps.

user_2006910

Swift 4+:

Add following lines in your table cell

let bgColorView = UIView()
bgColorView.backgroundColor =  .red
self.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView

Finally it should be as below

override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool)
    {
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)

        // Configure the view for the selected state
        let bgColorView = UIView()
        bgColorView.backgroundColor =  .red
        self.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView

    }
user_26114130

for Swift 3.0:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cell = super.tableView(tableView, cellForRowAt: indexPath)

    cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}
user_15915840

1- Add a view to the content view of your cell.
2- Right click your cell.
3- Make the added view as "selectedBackgroundView".

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user_11433610

Swift 4.x

To Change the selection background Colour to anyColour use Swift Extension

Create UITableView Cell extension as below

extension UITableViewCell{

    func removeCellSelectionColour(){
        let clearView = UIView()
        clearView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
        UITableViewCell.appearance().selectedBackgroundView = clearView
    } 

}

Then call removeCellSelectionColour() with cell instance.

user_44996970

Swift 5 - Xcode version 12.1 (12A7403)

|Step One|
Add the following to your AppDelegate.swift file

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

    let colorView = UIView()
    colorView.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGray

    UITableViewCell.appearance().selectedBackgroundView = colorView
        
    return true
}

|Step Two|
Make sure your cell's Content View background is set to "Clear Color" (and not "Default") in the Attributes Inspector. This is done to not conflict with your App Delegate setting.

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