iOS - Left and right margin for UITableViewCells in Swift

Question

I have a dynamic table view in grouped style and different custom cells in separate nibs, which then I register in viewDidLoad and add them to the tableview accordingly. In story board I added a uiview under the prototype cell to be my footer inside there's a button. Now because my cells have borders I want to have a left and right margin , but not for the whole tableView , only for the cells . I did use this code :

self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 10);

but doing this , my footer doesn't have the width of the screen anymore.

I looked in the web and found some people use this:

import UIKit

class MyTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        contentView.frame = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(contentView.frame, UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 16, 0, 16))
    }
}

but this doesn't do anything.

Note that viewForHeaderinSection and viewForFooterInSection are used on my application. Any suggestions please. Thank you

import UIKit class MyTableViewCell: UITableViewCell { override func layoutSubviews() { super.layoutSubviews() contentView.frame = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(contentView.frame, UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 16, 0, 16)) } } you won’t see the applied margin because under the content view there is a background view of the table cell. So it prevents the margin because it is by default white, so it should be transparent — Vinaykrishnan
– Vinaykrishnan, Commented Jun 25, 2018 at 13:51
try setting the background color of cell to transparent(clear color) — Vinaykrishnan
– Vinaykrishnan, Commented Jun 25, 2018 at 13:54
@ChiragKothiya you mean like this : self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 10) . I did do that but as I said the margin is also applied to the footer and I don't want that — Kilom94l
– Kilom94l, Commented Jun 25, 2018 at 13:55

Kilom94l · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-25 15:57:14Z

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For future reference this is how I fixed it :

override var frame: CGRect {
    get {
        return super.frame
    }
    set {
        var frame = newValue
        frame.origin.x += 25
        frame.size.width -= 2 * 25

        super.frame = frame
    }
}

thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/42094806

answered Jun 25, 2018 at 15:57

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