Custom UITableViewHeaderFooterView with XIB and AutoLayout

Question

I am getting this error from my custom UITableViewHeaderFooterView :

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Auto Layout still required after executing -layoutSubviews. WYBDetailHeaderView's implementation of -layoutSubviews needs to call super.'

I have subclassed UITableViewHeaderFooterView and created a XIB file which I load using registerNib:forHeaderFooterViewReuseIdentifier: on my UITableView .

As there is no UITableViewHeaderFooterView in IB, I have followed the advice in other posts and just used UIView ( UITableViewHeaderFooterView in InterfaceBuilder ; UITableViewHeaderFooterView with IB ).

My custom UITableViewHeaderFooterView uses AutoLayout and includes two multi-line UILabel 's, and I assume the problem is related to the fact that these subviews are on the UITableViewHeaderFooterView itself and not .contentView . However I do not know how to do that using IB.

This is my layoutSubviews implementation (I've tried a few combinations without success). I even get the error when I remove this function altogether:

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
    [super layoutSubviews];
    // Commented out because of infinite loop.
    //  If this was a custom UITableViewCell I would call these methods on self.contentView
    //[self setNeedsLayout];
    //[self layoutIfNeeded];

    self.titleLabel.preferredMaxLayoutWidth = CGRectGetWidth(self.titleLabel.frame);
    self.subtitleLabel.preferredMaxLayoutWidth = CGRectGetWidth(self.subtitleLabel.frame);
}

How should I be doing this?

Answer 1

Try this method :

-(UIView*) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section

Then, load xib file in it.