touchesBegan not getting called

Question

I have a few UITextFields in static UITableVieweCells, and I'm trying to dismiss keyboard when the user taps elsewhere. Here is my code:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
   [self.view endEditing:YES];
    NSLog(@"touch began");
}

I didn't get any NSLogs when I taped elsewhere. What am I doing wrong?`

I then tried self.view.userInteractionEnabled = YES;, and self.tableView, and they both didn't work.

Answer 1

Your touches are probably being swallowed by the table view cells. Try putting your keyboard dismiss code in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: on your table view delegate instead.

EDIT:

Perhaps then you ought to use some combination of that and gesture recognizers:

UITapGestureRecognizer *navBarTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(dismissKeyboard:)];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar addGestureRecognizer:navBarTap];

UITapGestureRecognizer *tableViewTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(dismissKeyboard:)];
[self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:tableViewTap];