How can I prevent blue highlight when select row from tableView.allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES

Question

I have a table view and custom TableViewCell with configure to allow multiple cell to be selected in editing mode and a check-mark will showing when I selected cell.

tableView.allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES

I want to prevent the blue highlight when I selected my cell in editing mode.

I have try many ways like configure cell selection style but with this configure the "check-mark" won't be show in editing mode when cell selected.

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

I really need helps in this case. Thanks.

you could set a custom highlight color to be a clear color – MSU_Bulldog May 23 '16 at 18:19 — MSU_Bulldog, May 23 '16 at 18:19
@MSU_Bulldog how can I do that ? – sunsunai May 23 '16 at 18:44 — sunsunai, May 23 '16 at 18:44

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '16 at 19:08

You can overwrite the selectedBackgroundView property of your custom tableViewCell this line of code works for me

[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(cell.frame.origin.x, cell.frame.origin.x, cell.frame.size.width, cell.frame.size.height)]];

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '16 at 17:48

One method is to overwrite setHighlighted:animated: in your cell:

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted animated:(BOOL)animated {
    // do nothing
}

This will block the highlighting behavior, not the selection behavior. The selection can be completely overriden using:

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
    // update UI for selection state
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '19 at 02:25

Swift:

cell.selectedBackgroundView = UIView(frame: cell.frame) or

cell.selectedBackgroundView.isHidden = true

But it may still not work as you expect. When selected all of the cell's subviews' backgroundColor to clear color(transparent), you may want to recover it

How can I prevent blue highlight when select row from tableView.allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES

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