Space Between Sections in UITableview

Question

I need to reduce the space between two sections ofUITableView. I looked at this question but the solution doesn't allow for my custom header view because it combines the space of the footer and header.

Here is a picture of the UITableView. The black color is the UITableView background color.

Answer 1

You need to use method heightForHeaderInSection for defining space between header & cell text. You can also change it depending on different sections for eg. at some sections you may need to show more distance & under some, you don't want to show gap. For such case you can use CGFLOAT_MIN which is 0.000001f. Giving you an example, how you can use different section with different header heights

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (section == 0 || section == 2)
    {
        return 55.0;
    }
    else
    {
        return CGFLOAT_MIN;
    }
}

Hope it will help you.

Answer 2

You can do it by implement the delegate heightForHeaderInSection & heightForFooterInSection.

The return vaule should not be 0, even if the SectionHeader or the height of SectionFooter is 0, it need a very small value, try CGFLOAT_MIN.

for my example:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section{
if (section == [self.dataArray indexOfObject:self.bannerList]) {
    return 46;
}
return CGFLOAT_MIN;

}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return CGFLOAT_MIN;
}