Getting row of UITableView cell on button press

Question

I have a tableview controller that displays a row of cells. Each cell has 3 buttons. I have numbered the tags for each cell to be 1,2,3. The problem is I don't know how to find on which cell a button is being pressed. I'm currently only getting the sender's tag when one of the buttons has been pressed. Is there a way to get the cell row number as well when a button is pressed?

Answer 1

Another simple way:

• Get the point of touch in tableView

• Then get index path of cell at point

• The index path contains row index

The code is:

- (void)buttonTapped:(id)sender {
    UITapGestureRecognizer *tap = (UITapGestureRecognizer *)sender;
    CGPoint point = [tap locationInView:theTableView];

    NSIndexPath *theIndexPath = [theTableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:point];

    NSInteger theRowIndex = theIndexPath.row;
    // do your stuff here
    // ...
}

Answer 2

Edit: This answer is outdated. Please use this method instead

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Try this:

-(void)button1Tapped:(id)sender
{
    UIButton *senderButton = (UIButton *)sender;
    UITableViewCell *buttonCell = (UITableViewCell *)[senderButton superview];
    UITableView* table = (UITableView *)[buttonCell superview];
    NSIndexPath* pathOfTheCell = [table indexPathForCell:buttonCell];
    NSInteger rowOfTheCell = [pathOfTheCell row];
    NSLog(@"rowofthecell %d", rowOfTheCell);
}

Edit: If you are using contentView, use this for buttonCell instead:

UITableViewCell *buttonCell = (UITableViewCell *)senderButton.superview.superview;

Answer 3

I assume you add buttons to cell in cellForRowAtIndexPath, then what I would do is to create a custom class subclass UIButton, add a tag called rowNumber, and append that data while you adding button to cell.

Answer 4

In swift:

@IBAction func buttonAction(_ sender: UIButton) {
    guard let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForRow(at: sender.convert(CGPoint(), to: tableView)) else {
        return
    }
    // do something
}