Reload a table view's data without clearing its selection state

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Mischa picture Mischa · Oct 22, 2013 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I have a table view with selectable rows. When I reload the table view some new rows might be added (or removed) and some labels in the table view's cells might change. That's what I want to achieve by calling [tableView reloadData].

Unfortunately that method also clears the table view's whole state - including the selection. But I need to keep the selection.

So how can I reload all the data in a table view while still keeping the selected rows selected?

Answer

JeroValli picture JeroValli · Oct 22, 2013

You can store the index path of the selected row with:

rowToSelect = [yourTableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

Before reload the data. And after reload use:

[yourTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:rowToSelect animated:YES scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];

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