How to manually call UITableView's titleForHeaderInSection method?

Question

Pretty simple question, but I just can't get it to work right. I need to be able to access the string header value of a section when a cell within that section is clicked.

My initial attempts haven't been working:

[tableView titleForHeaderInSection:1];

The reason I thought that would work is because I am also using this:

[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

Which works fine. I'm implementing the delegate, but I still get the warning that UITableView may not respond to titleForHeaderInSection. And then it crashes because of an unrecognized selector.

All I need to do is pass the string value of the cell title, and the section title into the next view.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better approach? Thanks

Answer 1

titleForHeaderInSection is the method of UITableViewDataSource protocol which is implemented by the client class not UITabelView.

So you can't call titleForHeaderInSection on your UITableView instance.