UITableview How to Disable Selection for Some Rows but Not Others

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I am displaying in a group tableview contents parsed from XML  I want to disable the click event on it  I should not be able to click it at all  The table contains two groups  I want to disable selection for the first group only but not the second group  Clicking the first row of second group navigates to my tube player view      How can I make just specific groups or rows selectable     -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath          if indexPath section  0       if indexPath row  0               UIApplication sharedApplication  openURL  NSURL URLWithString tubeUrl               Thanks

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Starting in iOS 6  you can use   -tableView shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath    If you return NO  it disables both the selection highlighting and the storyboard triggered segues connected to that cell   The method is called when a touch comes down on a row  Returning NO to that message halts the selection process and does not cause the currently selected row to lose its selected look while the touch is down   UITableViewDelegate Protocol Reference

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You need to do something like the following to disable cell selection within the cellForRowAtIndexPath method    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    cell setUserInteractionEnabled NO     To show the cell grayed out  put the following within the tableView WillDisplayCell forRowAtIndexPath method    cell setAlpha 0 5     One method allows you to control the interactivity  the other allows you to control the UI appearance

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You just have to put this code into cellForRowAtIndexPath  To disable the cell s selection property   while tapping the cell   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    To enable being able to select  tap  the cell   tapping the cell      Default style cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue      Gray style cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray    Note that a cell with selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone  will still cause the UI to call didSelectRowAtIndexPath when touched by the user  To avoid this  do as suggested below and set   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    instead  Also note you may want to set cell textLabel enabled   NO  to gray out the item

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If you want to make a row  or subset of rows  non-selectable  implement the UITableViewDelegate method -tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath   also mentioned by TechZen   If the indexPath should be not be selectable  return nil  otherwise return the indexPath   To get the default selection behavior  you just return the indexPath passed to your delegate method  but you can also alter the row selection by returning a different indexPath   example   -  NSIndexPath   tableView  UITableView   tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath          rows in section 0 should not be selectable     if   indexPath section    0   return nil          first 3 rows in any section should not be selectable     if   indexPath row  lt   2   return nil          By default  allow row to be selected     return indexPath

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Swift 5  Place the following line inside your cellForRowAt function  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCell SelectionStyle none

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You trap selections with these data source methods       tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath       tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath       tableView willDeselectRowAtIndexPath       tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath    In these methods  you check if the selected row is one you want to be selectable  If it is  take an action  if not  do nothing    Unfortunately  you can t turn off selection for just one section  It s the whole table or nothing    You can however set the table cells selectionStyle property to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone  I believe that will make the selection invisible  Combined with the above methods that should make the cells look completely inert from the user s perspective    Edit01   If you have a table in which only some of the rows are selectable it is important that the cells of the selectable rows be visually distinct from the non-selectable rows  The chevron accessory button is the default way to do this    However you do it  you don t want your users trying to select rows and thinking the app has malfed because the row doesn t do anything

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You can use the tableView willDisplayCell method to do all the kinds of customization to a tableViewCell   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView willDisplayCell  UITableViewCell   cell forRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath         cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone         cell setUserInteractionEnabled NO         if  indexPath section    1  amp  amp  indexPath row    0                   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray             cell setUserInteractionEnabled YES               In this above code  the user can only select the first row in the second section of the tableView  The rest all rows can t be selected  Thanks

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For Xcode 6 3    cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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for swift 3 0 you can use below code to disable user interaction to UITableView cell   cell isUserInteractionEnabled   false

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on Xcode 7 without coding you can simply do the following    In the outline view  select Table View Cell   The cell is nested under Table View Controller Scene   Table View Controller   Table View  You may have to disclose those objects to see the table view cell   In the Attributes inspector  find the field labeled Selection and select None  atribute inspector With this option  the cell won   t get a visual highlight when a user taps it

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My solution based on data model   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  willSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  IndexPath        let rowDetails   viewModel rowDetails forIndexPath  indexPath      return rowDetails enabled   indexPath   nil    func tableView   tableView  UITableView  shouldHighlightRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  Bool       let rowDetails   viewModel rowDetails forIndexPath  indexPath      return rowDetails enabled

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appart from tableView allowsMultipleSelection   true you will need to deselect the rest of the cells of the section when selecting   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  didSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath        if indexPath section does not support multiple selection              deselect the rest of cells         tableView              indexPathsForSelectedRows  compactMap    0                filter    0 section    indexPath section  amp  amp   0 row    indexPath row                forEach   tableView deselectRow at   0  animated  true

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I agree with Bryan s answer  if I do  cell isUserInteractionEnabled   false    then the subviews within the cell won t be user interacted    On the other site  setting   cell selectionStyle    none   will trigger the didSelect method despite not updating the selection color   Using willSelectRowAt is the way I solved my problem  Example   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  willSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  IndexPath         if indexPath section    0           if indexPath row    0              return nil                      else if indexPath section    1           if indexPath row    0              return nil                       return indexPath

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SIMPLE   Just use cell userInteractionEnabled   YES  to the cell if it can navigate and cell userInteractionEnabled   NO  otherwise

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For Swift 4 0 for example   cell isUserInteractionEnabled   false cell contentView alpha   0 5

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I like Brian Chapados answer above   However  this means that you may have logic duplicated in both cellForRowAtIndexPath and then in willSelectRowAtIndexPath which can easily get out of sync   Instead of duplicating the logic  just check the selectionStyle   -  NSIndexPath   tableView  UITableView   tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       UITableViewCell  cell    tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath       if  cell selectionStyle    UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone          return nil       else         return indexPath

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To stop just some cells being selected use   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    As well as preventing selection  this also stops tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  being called for the cells that have it set

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Implement just the method tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  in the data source for your table  If you want the row at the path to highlight  return the given indexPath  If you do not  return nil   Example from my app   -  NSIndexPath   tableView  UITableView   tableView     willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       MySelectableObj  obj    self objectAtPath indexPath       if obj  nil  return nil      return indexPath      The nice thing about this is that shouldPerformSegueWithIdentifier sender  will not be called if the above method returns nil  although I repeat the test above just for completeness

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I found this handy as it works with both static and dynamic tables  I only set the disclosure indicator on those cells I want to allow selection   -  NSIndexPath   tableView  UITableView   tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       UITableViewCell  cell    tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath       if  cell accessoryType    UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator            return nil            return indexPath

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None from the answers above really addresses the issue correctly  The reason is that we want to disable selection of the cell but not necessarily of subviews inside the cell   In my case I was presenting a UISwitch in the middle of the row and I wanted to disable selection for the rest of the row  which is empty  but not for the switch  The proper way of doing that is hence in the method  -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView willDisplayCell  UITableViewCell   cell forRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath   where a statement of the form   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     disables selection for the specific cell while at the same time allows the user to manipulate the switch and hence use the appropriate selector  This is not true if somebody disables user interaction through the   -  UITableViewCell   tableView  UITableView   tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath   method which merely prepares the cell and does not allow interaction with the UISwitch   Moreover  using the method  -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath   in order to deselect the cell with a statement of the form    tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated NO     still shows the row being selected while the user presses on the original contentView of the cell   Just my two cents  I am pretty sure many will find this useful

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For swift   cell selectionStyle    None cell userInteractionEnabled   false

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For swift 4 0 This will do the trick  It will disable the Cell in didSelectRowAtIndexPath method but keep the subviews clickable    func tableView   tableView  UITableView  willSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  IndexPath             if  indexPath row    clickableIndex                  return indexPath           else              return nil

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Use this to make the cell look like it is disabled and non-selectable   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    Important  note that this is only a styling property  and does not actually disable the cell  In order to do that  you have to check for selectionStylein your didSelectRowAtIndexPath  delegate implementation   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       UITableViewCell  cell    tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath       if cell selectionStyle    UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone            return                do your cell selection handling here

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