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Originally Posted by kooljava2

Thanks for the solution. It works beautifully. Couple of questions:

1. Why do we need a customview. Why can't we use just UILabel only?
2. Is there a memory leak here for customview and the label?

Thanks

1. You could use a UILabel; it's a UIView subclass after all. As a matter of fact, Apple's docs suggest returning a UILabel as an example. If you read salboy's code, though, you'll see that the label bounds X coordinate is set to 10.0 so that it won't bump against the left side of the table. And it's set inside a view because...
   
   I'm not sure specifically how UITableView handles section titles, but since they bump up against each other as they slide out of view I imagine they're simply views being moved directly over the contents of the tableView as it's tracking. In the default case, there's already a view with an embedded label offset inside the view. When you return the section header text via tableView:titleForHeaderInSection:, it's simply setting the default label's text property.
   
   If you'd just passed a UILabel, it would be offset to the bounds of the section header frame, and draw the text at the extreme left of the table. Try it.
   
   Just as a point of style, I probably would have init'ed customView a bit differently:
   

   UIView* customView = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, tableView.bounds.size.width, 44.0)] autorelease];

   The view's X coordinate doesn't make much of a difference. It's the label's offset you're worried about.
   
   Oh, and to mimic the standard UITableView behavior, I'd set the header view's backgroundColor to a color with a 0.9 or so alpha component. If you wanted to use gray, it'd look like:
   

   customView.backgroundColor = [[UIColor grayColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.9];

2. Yes, both the view and label are leaking. Personally, I'd alloc the view as autorelease (because you have to return it) and release the label after you've added it to the view. The view will be released when its superview is released. (Well, actually when its autoreleasePool is drained...)