Can I force a UITableView to hide the separator between empty cells? [duplicate]
When using a plain-style UITableView
with a large enough number of cells that the UITableView
cannot display them all without scrolling, no separators appear in the empty space below the cells. If I have only a few cells the empty space below them includes separators.
Is there a way that I can force a UITableView
to remove the separators in the empty space? If not I'll have to load a custom background with a separator drawn in for each cell which will make it harder to inherit behavior.
I found a somewhat similar question here, but I can't use a grouped UITableView
in my implementation.
For iOS 7.* and iOS 6.1
The easiest method is to set the tableFooterView
property:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// This will remove extra separators from tableview
self.tableView.tableFooterView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
}
For previous versions
You could add this to your TableViewController (this will work for any number of sections):
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
// This will create a "invisible" footer
return 0.01f;
}
and if it is not enough, add the following code too:
- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return [UIView new];
// If you are not using ARC:
// return [[UIView new] autorelease];
}
For Swift:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
tableView.tableFooterView = UIView() // it's just 1 line, awesome!
}