Stick UItableview Header View to Top When Creating Header in Storyboard

Stick UITableView header view to top when creating header in storyboard

rdelmar's comment helped me understand the reasoning behind it not working. Here is what I did in practice to fix the problem:

I had to drag the header view in storyboard down by where the first responder is. You'll notice you can't actually drag the header view down on the view itself, you'll have to drag the element down from the document outline.

I also had to implement viewForHeaderInSection (returning the header view that I made an outlet) and heightForHeaderInSection.

Every time you want to edit the view via storyboard, you'll have to drag it back up to edit it, then drag it back down so it works correctly.

How to make UITable header stick to the top of the screen when using Storyboards?

I was able to do it (at least in iOS 6) like this, don't know why this thing works:)

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {

    if(self.headerManualView == nil) {
        //allocate the view if it doesn't exist yet
        headerManualView  = [[UIView alloc] init];

        //create the button
        UITextField *txtField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 3, 250, 44)];

        //the button should be as big as a table view cell
        txtField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;

        //set action of the button
        //[txtField addTarget:self action:@selector(removeAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

        //add the button to the view
        [headerManualView addSubview:txtField];
    }

    //return the view for the footer
    return headerManualView;
}

How do you produce a Storyboard header that doesn't scroll with the table beneath it and doesn't bounce on refresh?

It looks like you're on the right track...

Difficult to tell from the image you posted, but what you want to do is use a UIViewController ... NOT a UITableViewController. Then you can add a view as your "header view" at the top, and add a UITableView below that "header view."

Here's how it might be laid-out:

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Edit - after comments...

Do NOT try to edit the XML of your Storyboard. Unless you know exactly what you're doing (including all of the quirks and intricacies of that XML), you're just asking for trouble.

You can copy/paste (or directly move) UI elements.

The approach I would take, starting with this Storyboard (a UITableViewController with a cell Prototype):

Add a new UIViewController to your Storyboard:

Add and constrain your "header" view:

Add and constrain a UITableView:

Now drag the cell Prototype from the UITableViewController to the table view in your new UIViewController:

The result:

Now you can delete your original table view controller... assign your class to the new view controller... make sure you have all @IBOutlet and @IBAction connections set... re-connect any segues you need... etc.

Table Header Views in StoryBoards

It looks like one simply drags a control to the top of the table view. I didn't expect it to be that easy.

Before Drop

After Drop

UITableView header will not stick to the top of UITableView

What you're describing is the table view header. You don't add it to the table directly, but rather, you assign it to the table's tableHeaderView property like this:

self.tableView.tableHeaderView = myHeaderView;

Or you can just drag and drop a view into the storyboard at the top of the table view above the first section.

Is it possible to have a fixed uitableview Header while using sections?

There’s no way to maintain the header of a tableView fixed, but
an useful approach when you need a unique header, is to use a UIViewController rather than a UITableViewController, and set the header (UIView) out from the tableView.

Something like this:

Stick TableHeader Image always on top of the Screen?

You have to use the following in viewDidLoad():

topView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 300))

let testView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 200))
testView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
tableView.tableHeaderView = testView

let img = UIImage(named: "bg")
topImageView = UIImageView(image: img)

topImageView?.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 180)
topView.addSubview(topImageView!)
topImageView?.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleToFill
tableView.addSubview(topView!)
tableView.sendSubviewToBack(topView!)

UITableView with fixed section headers

The headers only remain fixed (floating) when the UITableViewStyle property of the table is set to UITableViewStylePlain.

If you have it set to UITableViewStyleGrouped, the headers will scroll up with the cells (will not float).

Is it possible to disable floating headers in UITableView with UITableViewStylePlain?

You should be able to fake this by using a custom cell to do your header rows. These will then scroll like any other cell in the table view.

You just need to add some logic in your cellForRowAtIndexPath to return the right cell type when it is a header row.

You'll probably have to manage your sections yourself though, i.e. have everything in one section and fake the headers. (You could also try returning a hidden view for the header view, but I don't know if that will work)

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