How to make a sticky footer and header with a tableview?

Question

I have a UITableView in the storyboard with also a header and a footer defined as can be seen in the picture.

However, the header disappears when I move the cell (it seems the header is the top cell). Same thing with the footer. It appears after I have browsed through all cells. I tried to move the header and the footer outside of the Cell hierarchy. But this resulted in being not visible any more.

How can I make the header and footer sticky?

Answer 1

Don't confuse the section header and footer with the table header and footer.

• The section header and footer, in a non-grouped table, are pinned to the top and bottom of the table while you scroll.

• But the table header and footer, as you rightly say, are sort of like cells: they are before the first section and after the last section, and they scroll with the table.

If that's not what you want — that is, if there is something you want to show above the table and below the table, all the time — then you need to put them above and below the table view as completely separate views:

thing above
table
thing below

Of course, if you do that, you can't use a UITableViewController. You'll have to have a normal view controller, with the table view as an embedded view and the table view controller as a child view controller.