How to add spacing between UITableViewCell

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Is there any way to add spacing between UITableViewCell   I have created a table and each cell only contain an image  The image is assigned to the cell like this   cell imageView image    myImages objectAtIndex indexPath row     but this make the image enlarged and fit into the whole cell  and there are no spacing between the images   Or lets say in this way  the height of image are e g  50  and I want to add 20 spacing between the images  Is there any way to accomplish this

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I was in the same boat  At first I tried switching to sections  but in my case it ended up being more of a headache than I originally thought  so I ve been looking for an alternative  To keep using rows  and not mess with how you access your model data   here s what worked for me just by using a mask   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  willDisplay cell  UITableViewCell  forRowAt indexPath  IndexPath        let verticalPadding  CGFloat   8      let maskLayer   CALayer       maskLayer cornerRadius   10      if you want round edges     maskLayer backgroundColor   UIColor black cgColor     maskLayer frame   CGRect x  cell bounds origin x  y  cell bounds origin y  width  cell bounds width  height  cell bounds height  insetBy dx  0  dy  verticalPadding 2      cell layer mask   maskLayer     All you have left to do is make the cell s height bigger by the same value as your desired verticalPadding  and then modify your inner layout so that any views that had spacing to the edges of the cell have that same spacing increased by verticalPadding 2  Minor downside  you get verticalPadding 2 padding on both the top and bottom of the tableView  but you can quickly fix this by setting tableView contentInset bottom   -verticalPadding 2 and tableView contentInset top   -verticalPadding 2  Hope this helps somebody

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My situation was i used custom UIView to viewForHeader in section also heightForHeader in section return constant height say 40  issue was when there is no data all header views were touched to each other  so i wanted to space between the section in absent of data so i fixed by just changing  tableview style  plane to   Group  and it worked for me

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I think this is the cleanest solution   class MyTableViewCell  UITableViewCell       override func awakeFromNib             super awakeFromNib           layoutMargins   UIEdgeInsetsMake 8  0  8  0

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Swift Version Updated for Swift 3 This answer is somewhat more general than the original question for the sake of future viewers  It is a supplemental example to the basic UITableView example for Swift   Overview The basic idea is to create a new section  rather than a new row  for each array item  The sections can then be spaced using the section header height  How to do it  Set up your project as described in UITableView example for Swift   That is  add a UITableView and hook up the tableView outlet to the View Controller    In the Interface Builder  change the main view background color to light blue and the UITableView background color to clear   Replace the ViewController swift code with the following    ViewController swift import UIKit class ViewController  UIViewController  UITableViewDelegate  UITableViewDataSource               These strings will be the data for the table view cells     let animals   String      quot Horse quot    quot Cow quot    quot Camel quot    quot Sheep quot    quot Goat quot            let cellReuseIdentifier    quot cell quot      let cellSpacingHeight  CGFloat   5           IBOutlet var tableView  UITableView           override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad                       These tasks can also be done in IB if you prefer          self tableView register UITableViewCell self  forCellReuseIdentifier  cellReuseIdentifier          tableView delegate   self         tableView dataSource   self                   MARK  - Table View delegate methods          func numberOfSections in tableView  UITableView  - gt  Int           return self animals count                   There is just one row in every section     func tableView   tableView  UITableView  numberOfRowsInSection section  Int  - gt  Int           return 1                   Set the spacing between sections     func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  CGFloat           return cellSpacingHeight                   Make the background color show through     func tableView   tableView  UITableView  viewForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  UIView            let headerView   UIView           headerView backgroundColor   UIColor clear         return headerView                   create a cell for each table view row     func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell                    let cell UITableViewCell   self tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier  cellReuseIdentifier  as UITableViewCell                      note that indexPath section is used rather than indexPath row         cell textLabel  text   self animals indexPath section                      add border and color         cell backgroundColor   UIColor white         cell layer borderColor   UIColor black cgColor         cell layer borderWidth   1         cell layer cornerRadius   8         cell clipsToBounds   true                  return cell                   method to run when table view cell is tapped     func tableView   tableView  UITableView  didSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath               note that indexPath section is used rather than indexPath row         print  quot You tapped cell number   indexPath section   quot            Note that indexPath section is used rather than indexPath row in order to get the proper values for the array elements and tap positions  How did you get the extra padding space on the right and left  I got it the same way you add spacing to any view  I used auto layout constraints  Just use the pin tool in the Interface Builder to add spacing for the leading and trailing constraints

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My easy solution using Swift        Inside UITableViewCell subclass  override func layoutSubviews         super layoutSubviews        contentView frame   contentView frame inset by  UIEdgeInsets top  10  left  10  bottom  10  right  10       Result

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I needed to do the same concept of having UITableCells have a  space  between them  Since you can t literally add space between cells you can fake it by manipulating the UITableView s cell height and then adding a UIView to the contentView of your cell  Here is a screen shot of a prototype I did in another test project when I was simulating this     Here is some code  Note  there are lots of hard coded values for demonstration purposes   First  I needed to set the heightForRowAtIndexPath to allow for different heights on the UITableViewCell   -  CGFloat tableView  UITableView   tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath        NSString  text    self newsArray  objectAtIndex  indexPath row        if   text isEqual   December 2012                  return 25 0             return 80 0      Next  I want to manipulate the look and feel of the UITableViewCells so I do that in the willDisplayCell  NewsUITableViewCell   cell forRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath method   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView willDisplayCell  NewsUITableViewCell   cell forRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       if  cell IsMonth                UIImageView  av     UIImageView alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 20  20  20  20            av backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor           av opaque   NO          av image    UIImage imageNamed   month-bar-bkgd png            UILabel  monthTextLabel     UILabel alloc  init           CGFloat font   11 0f          monthTextLabel font    BVFont HelveticaNeue  amp font            cell backgroundView   av          cell textLabel font    BVFont HelveticaNeue  amp font           cell textLabel textColor    BVFont WebGrey               if  indexPath row    0                cell contentView backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor           UIView  whiteRoundedCornerView     UIView alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 10 10 300 70            whiteRoundedCornerView backgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor           whiteRoundedCornerView layer masksToBounds   NO          whiteRoundedCornerView layer cornerRadius   3 0          whiteRoundedCornerView layer shadowOffset   CGSizeMake -1  1           whiteRoundedCornerView layer shadowOpacity   0 5           cell contentView addSubview whiteRoundedCornerView            cell contentView sendSubviewToBack whiteRoundedCornerView              Note that I made my whiteRoundedCornerView height 70 0 and that s what causes the simulated space because the cell s height is actually 80 0 but my contentView is 70 0 which gives it the appearance   There might be other ways of accomplishing this even better but it s just how I found how to do it  I hope it can help someone else

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Check out my solution on GitHub with subclassing of UITableView and using runtime features of Objective-C  It basically uses Apple s private data structure UITableViewRowData that I got searching private runtime header of UITableView   https   github com JaviSoto iOS10-Runtime-Headers blob master Frameworks UIKit framework UITableView h    and here s desired private class that contains everything you need to layout your cells  spacings however you want without setting it in cells  classes     https   github com JaviSoto iOS10-Runtime-Headers blob master Frameworks UIKit framework UITableViewRowData h

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Read this after reading other people answers I d like to warn everyone who wants to use the solution like adding headers that will serve the purpose of spacing  If you do this  you will not be able to animate cells insertions  deletions  etc   For example  you may get this kind of error if you use that method Invalid update  invalid number of sections  The number of sections contained in the table view after the update  6  must be equal to the number of sections contained in the table view before the update  5   plus or minus the number of sections inserted or deleted  0 inserted  0 deleted   In case you need to animate insertions and deletions of rows I would go with adding this space in the cells itself  If you are concern about highlighting  then you can override method func setHighlighted   highlighted  Bool  animated  Bool  and set the highlighting yourself

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You will have to set frame to your image  Untested code is  cell imageView frame   CGRectOffset cell frame  10  10

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If you don t want to change the section and row number of your table view  like I did   here s what you do   1  Add an ImageView to the bottom of your table cell view   2  Make it the same colour as the background colour of the table view   I ve done this in my application and it works perfectly  Cheers   D

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add a inner view to the cell then add your own views to it

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The way I achieve adding spacing between cells is to make numberOfSections    Your array count  and make each section contains only one row  And then define headerView and its height    -  NSInteger numberOfSectionsInTableView  UITableView   tableView       return yourArry count     -  NSInteger tableView  UITableView   tableView numberOfRowsInSection  NSInteger section       return 1     - CGFloat tableView  UITableView   tableView heightForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section       return cellSpacingHeight     - UIView   tableView  UITableView   tableView viewForHeaderInSection  NSInteger section       UIView  v    UIView new        v setBackgroundColor  UIColor clearColor        return v

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This article helped  it s pretty much what the other answers said but summarize and concise   https   medium com  andersongusmao left-and-right-margins-on-uitableviewcell-595f0ba5f5e6  In it  he only applies them to left and right sides but the UIEdgeInsetsMake init allows to add padding to all four points      func UIEdgeInsetsMake   top  CGFloat    left  CGFloat    bottom  CGFloat    right  CGFloat  -  UIEdgeInsets      Description   Creates an edge inset for a button or view    An inset is a margin around a rectangle  Positive values represent margins closer to the center of the rectangle  while negative values represent margins further from the center       Parameters   top  The inset at the top of an object    left  The inset on the left of an object   bottom  The inset on the bottom of an object    right  The inset on the right of an object       Returns   An inset for a button or view   Note that UIEdgeInsets can also be used to achieve the same   Xcode 9 3 Swift 4

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Based on Husam s answer  Using the cell layer instead of content view allows for adding a border around the entire cell and the accessory if need  This method requires careful adjustment of the bottom constraints of the cell as well as those insets otherwise the view will not proper    implementation TableViewCell  -  void awakeFromNib                -  void  layoutSubviews        super layoutSubviews        CGRect newFrame   UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect self layer frame  UIEdgeInsetsMake 4  0  4  0        self layer frame   newFrame      end

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You can simply use constraint in code like this    class viewCell   UITableViewCell      IBOutlet weak var container  UIView     func setShape         self container backgroundColor    blue     self container layer cornerRadius   20     container translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints   false     self container widthAnchor constraint equalTo contentView widthAnchor   constant  -40  isActive   true            self container heightAnchor constraint equalTo  contentView heightAnchor constant  -20  isActive   true            self container centerXAnchor constraint equalTo  contentView centerXAnchor  isActive   true            self container centerYAnchor constraint equalTo  contentView centerYAnchor  isActive   true            it s important to add subview  container  and put other elements in it

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Example in swift 3       Crease a single view application add tableview in view controller add a customcell for tablview cell view controller code is bellow like     class ViewController  UIViewController UITableViewDelegate UITableViewDataSource        IBOutlet weak var tableView  UITableView        var arraytable     String Any          override func viewDidLoad          super viewDidLoad         arraytable            title   About Us   detail   RA-InfoTech Ltd -A Joint Venture IT Company formed by Bank Asia Ltd           title   Contact   detail   Bengal Center  4th  amp  6th Floor   28  Topkhana Road  Dhaka - 1000  Bangladesh              tableView delegate   self    tableView dataSource   self       For Auto Resize Table View Cell    tableView estimatedRowHeight   44    tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension       Detault Background clear    tableView backgroundColor   UIColor clear     func numberOfSections in tableView  UITableView  -  Int       return arraytable count       func tableView   tableView  UITableView  numberOfRowsInSection section  Int  - gt  Int    return 1        Set the spacing between sections  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  CGFloat   return 10       Make the background color show through   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  viewForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  UIView    let headerView   UIView   headerView backgroundColor   UIColor clear  return headerView         func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell         let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   cell    as  CustomCell       cell tv title text   arraytable indexPath section   title   as  String      cell tv details text   arraytable indexPath section   detail   as  String        label height dynamically increase    cell tv details numberOfLines   0          For bottom border to tv title     let frame    cell tv title frame     let bottomLayer   CALayer      bottomLayer frame   CGRect x  0  y  frame height - 1  width  frame width  height  1      bottomLayer backgroundColor   UIColor black cgColor    cell tv title layer addSublayer bottomLayer       borderColor borderWidth  cornerRadius   cell backgroundColor   UIColor lightGray   cell layer borderColor   UIColor red cgColor   cell layer borderWidth   1   cell layer cornerRadius   8   cell clipsToBounds   true    return cell            Download full source to Github   link   https   github com enamul95 CustomSectionTable

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If you are not using section headers  or footers  already  you can use them to add arbitrary spacing to table cells  Instead of having one section with n rows  create a table with n sections with one row each   Implement the tableView heightForHeaderInSection  method to control the spacing   You may also want to implement tableView viewForHeaderInSection  to control what the spacing looks like

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Yes you can increase or decrease the spacing padding  between two cell by creating one base view on content view in cell Set clear colour for content view background and you can adjust the height of the base view to create space between cells

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I override this function is subclass of UITableViewCell  and it works OK for me override func layoutSubviews           super layoutSubviews           set the values for top left bottom right margins       let margins   UIEdgeInsets top  5  left  8  bottom  5  right  8        contentView frame   contentView frame inset by  margins        contentView layer cornerRadius   8

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I was having trouble getting this to work alongside background colours and accessory views in the cell  Ended up having to   1  Set the cells background view property with a UIView set with a background colour   let view   UIView   view backgroundColor   UIColor white self backgroundView   view   2  Re-position this view in layoutSubviews to add the idea of spacing   override func layoutSubviews         super layoutSubviews       backgroundView  frame   backgroundView  frame inset by  UIEdgeInsets top  2  left  0  bottom  0  right  0      CGRect zero

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Try looking into     -  UIEdgeInsets layoutMargins  on the cell

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Using a bunch of different sections is not needed  The other answers use frame insets and CGRect and layers and    BLAH  Not good  use auto layout and a custom UITableViewCell  In that UITableViewCell  instead of sub viewing your content inside the contentView  make a new containerView  a UIView   subview the container view inside the contentView  then subview all your views inside the container view   To make the spacing now  simply edit the layout margins of the container view  like so   class CustomTableViewCell  UITableViewCell       let containerView   UIView       let imageView   UIImageView        required init  coder aDecoder  NSCoder   super init coder  aDecoder        override init style  UITableViewCell CellStyle  reuseIdentifier  String             super init style  style  reuseIdentifier  reuseIdentifier           containerView translatesAutoResizingMaskIntoConstraints   false         imageView translatesAutoResizingMaskIntoConstraints   false         contentView addSubview containerView          containerView addSubview imageView           contentView layoutMargins   UIEdgeInsets top  15  left  3  bottom  15  right  3          containerView layoutMargins   UIEdgeInsets top  15  left  17  bottom  15  right  17     It isn t really necessary unless you ve got an extremely complex table view cell  Otherwise  you could just write e g  containerView topAnchor          let cg   contentView layoutMarginsGuide         let lg   containerView layoutMarginsGuide         NSLayoutConstraint activate               containerView topAnchor constraint equalTo  cg topAnchor               containerView leadingAnchor constraint equalTo  cg leadingAnchor               containerView trailingAnchor constraint equalTo  cg trailingAnchor               containerView bottomAnchor constraint equalTo  cg bottomAnchor               imageView topAnchor constraint equalTo  lg topAnchor               imageView leadingAnchor constraint equalTo  lg leadingAnchor               imageView trailingAnchor constraint equalTo  lg trailingAnchor               imageView bottomAnchor constraint equalTo  lg bottomAnchor

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Use UITableViewDelegate  heightForRowAtIndexPath and return the height of row     CGFloat tableView  UITableView   tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath    return 100 0f

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here is the actual solution use sections instead of rows because every row has 1 section so you can give space to the header and the footer of the section here is the code just paste it in to your viewcontroller class where you create your tableview outlet if you want top spacing just use heightForHeaderInSection if you want bottom spacing just use heightForFooterInSection as shown below just copy and paste it func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForFooterInSection section  Int  - gt  CGFloat       return 20    func tableView   tableView  UITableView  viewForFooterInSection section  Int  - gt  UIView        let v   UIView       v backgroundColor   UIColor clear     return v        func numberOfSections in tableView  UITableView  - gt  Int           return 10            func tableView   tableView  UITableView  numberOfRowsInSection section  Int  - gt  Int           return 1

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Three approaches I can think of    Create a custom table cell that lays out the view of the entire cell in the manner that you desire Instead of adding the image to the image view  clear the subviews of the image view  create a custom  view that adds an UIImageView for the image and another view  perhaps a simple UIView that provides the desired spacing  and add it as a subview of the image view  I want to suggest that you manipulate the UIImageView directly to set a fixed size padding  but I m nowhere near Xcode so I can t confirm whether how this would work    Does that make sense

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I solved it like this way in Swift 4   I create a extension of UITableViewCell and include this code   override open var frame  CGRect       get           return super frame           set  newFrame            var frame    newFrame         frame origin y    10         frame origin x    10         frame size height -  15         frame size width -  2   10         super frame   frame          override open func awakeFromNib         super awakeFromNib       layer cornerRadius   15     layer masksToBounds   false     I hope it helps you

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Swift 5  Spacing Between UITableViewCell     1  Use sections instead of rows     2  Each section should return one row     3  Assign your cell data like this e g  indexPath section   instead of row     4  Use UITableView Method  quot heightForHeader quot  and return your desired spacing     5  Do rest things as you were doing it          Thanks

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Using the headers as spacing would work fine I guess if you don t want to use any headers  Otherwise  probably not the best idea  What I m thinking is create a custom cell view   Examples     Using Nib In code   In the custom cell  make a background view with constraints so that it doesn t fill the entire cell  give it some padding   Then  make the tableview background invisible and remove the separators      Make the background invisible tableView backgroundView   UIView   tableView backgroundColor    clear     Remove the separators tableview separatorStyle    none

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I think the most straight forward solution if your just looking for a little space and probably least expensive would be to simply set the cell border color to your tables background color then set the border width to get desired result       cell layer borderColor   blueColor CGColor     cell layer borderWidth   3

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Change the number of rows in section to 1 You have changed number of sections instead number of rows   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  numberOfRowsInSection section  Int  - gt  Int           1              func numberOfSections in tableView  UITableView  - gt  Int           return 2         Here you put spacing between rows   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForHeaderInSection section  Int  - gt  CGFloat           return 50

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