When you tap a row in a UITableView, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing?

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Yes, it's possible to disable the highlighting and selection of a row in a UITableView in iOS when a user taps on it. You can achieve this by implementing the UITableViewDelegate method tableView(_:didSelectRowAt:) and not taking any action inside it.

Here's an example in Swift:

swift
import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {

    @IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!
    
    let data = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"]
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        tableView.delegate = self
        tableView.dataSource = self
    }
    
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return data.count
    }
    
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath)
        cell.textLabel?.text = data[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }
    
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        // Disable row selection by not doing anything here
    }
}

In this example:

  1. We have a UITableView with three rows and data to display.
  2. We set the view controller as the delegate and data source for the table view.
  3. We implement the tableView(_:didSelectRowAt:) method but leave its body empty, effectively doing nothing when a row is selected.

With this implementation, when a user taps a row in the table view, it won't be highlighted or selected because we've overridden the default behavior of the didSelectRowAt method. This allows you to control what happens when a row is tapped without any automatic selection or highlighting.

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