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Bart van Kuik
Bart van Kuik

Reputation: 4862

Section header cannot be hidden in UITableView with UITableViewAutomaticDimension

I have a UITableView with section headers. The whole tableview has UITableViewAutomaticDimension set, for both cells as well as headers:

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!
    @IBOutlet var sectionHeader: MyTableViewHeaderFooterView!

    let data = [
        "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
        "sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation",
        "Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
    ]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        self.tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
        self.tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44.0

        self.tableView.sectionHeaderHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
        self.tableView.estimatedSectionHeaderHeight = 44.0
    }

    // MARK: - Table View

    func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
        return 2
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return data.count
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, viewForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {
        if section == 0 {
            self.sectionHeader.label.text = "Section \(section)"
            return self.sectionHeader
        } else {
            return nil
        }
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! MyTableViewCell
        cell.label.text = data[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }


}

The problem is that I want to hide some section headers. The second section header should be hidden because I return nil instead of a view, however the space is still reserved. Why?

Screenshot of UITableView where space is reserved for an empty section header

Xcode project on Github: https://github.com/bvankuik/SectionHeaderAlwaysVisible

Upvotes: 1

Views: 900

Answers (1)

DAN
DAN

Reputation: 939

Apple's documentation about UITableViewAutomaticDimension says:

Returning this value from tableView:heightForHeaderInSection: or tableView:heightForFooterInSection: results in a height that fits the value returned from tableView:titleForHeaderInSection: or tableView:titleForFooterInSection: if the title is not nil.

I'm afraid you need to change the way you calculate the header height with something like this:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    if section == 1 {
        return 0
    } else {
        return UITableViewAutomaticDimension
    }
}

Upvotes: 6

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