👀 Views: 13 💬 Answers: 1 📅 Created: 2025-06-24

ios uitableview autolayout swift Swift

I'm a bit lost with I'm trying to implement I'm working with an scenario where the background color of my custom `UITableViewCell` is not updating correctly when the cell is selected or highlighted... I'm using Auto Layout and have set up the cell's layout in `awakeFromNib`. However, when I select a cell, it still shows the default selection color instead of the custom color I specified in the `setSelected:animated:` method. Here's the relevant code snippet: ```swift class CustomTableViewCell: UITableViewCell { override func awakeFromNib() { super.awakeFromNib() self.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGray } override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) { super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated) self.backgroundColor = selected ? UIColor.blue : UIColor.lightGray } } ``` I have also ensured that the `backgroundColor` is not being overridden elsewhere in the code. I've tried printing the value of `self.backgroundColor` in `setSelected` and it does change as expected, but the UI doesn't reflect this change. I also checked the `selectionStyle` and set it to `.none`, but the scenario continues. The question only occurs when the cell is under heavy load from other animations happening in the `UITableView`. I suspect it might be related to how Auto Layout is recalculating the views, but I need to seem to find a solution. Has anyone else faced a similar scenario or has suggestions on how to ensure the cell's background updates correctly during selection? This is happening in both development and production on Ubuntu 20.04.