changing UITableViewCell background

Question

I know this might have been asked thousands time, I tried changing the background for my UITablewViewCell via the following:

 cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0.188235 blue:0.313725 alpha:1];
              cell.textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0.188235 blue:0.313725 alpha:1];

and all I have now is:

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How do I set that accessory view background view color as well?

UPDATE: I have a section header on top in which it has a white background

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '11 at 00:30

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Put this in your UITableViewDelegate:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0.188235 blue:0.313725 alpha:1];
}

answered Apr 14 '11 at 00:30

conmulligan

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does this changes the section as well? – aherlambang Apr 14 '11 at 01:45
It shouldn't change the section colour, you'd have to do that yourself by implementing `tableView:viewForHeaderInSection:` and returning your own view. – conmulligan Apr 14 '11 at 16:03
this is the only solution out of many that worked for me. Thanks a lot – almas Mar 30 '13 at 03:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '11 at 01:16

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You're over-complicating it a bit. You can just change the tableview's background color which does exactly what you want. This way, you don't have to set the color for EVERY cell. :)

    self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];

answered Apr 14 '11 at 01:16

Alex Nguyen

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I actually have a section on top, in which I don't want to have a blue background.. should have shown that in the screenshot – aherlambang Apr 14 '11 at 01:45
Can you add the screenshot to your post? Are you talking about the table view header view? – Alex Nguyen Apr 14 '11 at 21:43

Jake Dahl · Answer 3 · 2012-09-24T15:01:53.353

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//in willDisplayCell
if (indexPath.section > 0) {
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}

edited Sep 24 '12 at 15:01

answered Aug 08 '12 at 16:15

Jake Dahl

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