UITableView pads touch area

Question

I follow Apple tutorial to make a simple app using table (as in the below image).

The red area height is 8 point. Why is touching the red area does not select first row ("Buy milk")?

Is it expected or is it a bug? How to fix?

Answer 1

It is not TableView Cell's area, that is why it is not detecting it. You can test it by assigning a background color to the cell of tableview, and then see what is the area of tableview

Answer 2

You may return for each cell of UITableView header section. You can show the implementation of this method?

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