[ios] UITableView, Separator color where to set?

I have added a UITableView in IB and set the "delegate" and "datasource" and all is working well. What I wanted to do next was change the separator color, but the only way I could find to do this was to add the method to one of the delegate callbacks, is there a better place I should put this?

I don't have this at the moment but I was thinking that maybe I need to add an "iVar" from my controller that I can link to the UITableView in IB and then set separator color in the viewDidload?

-(CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    [tableView setSeparatorColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    return 65;
}

Try + (instancetype)appearance of UITableView:

Objective-C:

[[UITableView appearance] setSeparatorColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; // set your desired colour in place of "[UIColor blackColor]"

Swift 3.0:

UITableView.appearance().separatorColor = UIColor.black // set your desired colour in place of "UIColor.black"

Note: Change will reflect to all tables used in application.

Now you should be able to do it directly in the IB.

Not sure though, if this was available when the question was posted originally.

Swift version:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // Assign your color to this property, for example here we assign the red color.
    tableView.separatorColor = UIColor.redColor()
}

Swift 3, xcode version 8.3.2, storyboard->choose your table View->inspector->Separator.

If you just want to set the same color to every separator and it is opaque you can use:

 self.tableView.separatorColor = UIColor.redColor()

If you want to use different colors for the separators or clear the separator color or use a color with alpha.

BE CAREFUL: You have to know that there is a backgroundView in the separator that has a default color.

To change it you can use this functions:

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
        if(view.isKindOfClass(UITableViewHeaderFooterView)){
            var headerView = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView;
            headerView.backgroundView?.backgroundColor = myColor

           //Other colors you can change here
           // headerView.backgroundColor = myColor
           // headerView.contentView.backgroundColor = myColor
        }
    }

    func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayFooterView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
        if(view.isKindOfClass(UITableViewHeaderFooterView)){
            var footerView = view as! UITableViewHeaderFooterView;
            footerView.backgroundView?.backgroundColor = myColor
           //Other colors you can change here
           //footerView.backgroundColor = myColor
           //footerView.contentView.backgroundColor = myColor
        }
    }

Hope it helps!