uitableviewcell.. make text transparent?

[turinreza]

hiya
i was wondering if the text property can have a backgroudn that is transparent..
i set an image as a background to the cell but when it has text in it
the text has a white background..

anyway to set it to transparent?
TIA

[blackspiderman]

Here an example:

[label setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

[gblank]

Originally Posted by turinreza

hiya
i was wondering if the text property can have a backgroudn that is transparent..
i set an image as a background to the cell but when it has text in it
the text has a white background..

anyway to set it to transparent?
TIA

Hi
did you managed to solve this problem?
I'm having the same issue, I have an image that i set as a backgroundview of a cell, but when I have text in it it covers the image with white background.

Thanks

[gblank]

Originally Posted by gblank

Hi
did you managed to solve this problem?
I'm having the same issue, I have an image that i set as a backgroundview of a cell, but when I have text in it it covers the image with white background.

Thanks

Solution:

Surfing the forums I found one solution that works for me and I’d like to share. In my case I was re-writting the UItableViewCell definition to build my own “Custom UITableViewCell” ’cause I need to display the information I had in an specific way, if this is your case too, you can override the layoutSubviews method to this one:

- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
[self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
}

[tadelv]

perhaps, it would be better to set the cells background color at the initialization (the initWithFrame:reuseIdentifier: method)?

if you want to set the labels background to transparent its just like blackspiderman said:

myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by gblank

- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
[self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
}

Be careful as using this function makes any Editing views in that cell (delete button, etc...) stop working.

[gblank]

Originally Posted by Dutch

Be careful as using this function makes any Editing views in that cell (delete button, etc...) stop working.

I would appreciate another solution to this problem, so far anything that I tried didn't work.
I am working on the SMS type bubble chat messages and I draw an image as the cell background but when I put text in this cell it covers the bubble and I only see left and right small sides of the bubble.

[Dutch]

I've experienced the same thing as you....I actually have a previous thread on it... Here is the link