UITableView tableHeaderView user interaction not working

Question

I'm using a table view with a very large header view (not section header) in order to take advantage of the various advantages of table views (performance on long lists, pull to refresh, etc).

The header is ~700 points tall and contains various interactive items - a map, two buttons & a horizontal collection view.

Currently, none of the touch events are being passed through to the controls. I have tried building my own UITableView subclass, overriding the touch events & sending them to the next responder, but this doesn't help.

Strangely, the table still scrolls fine, so I'm not sure why that's happening. I have confirmed that the events are firing through debugging.

As extra details - I'm using iOS 7, Xcode 5, autolayout is on & I'm using a lot of constraints. None of them are listed as conflicting though.

Any idea how I should resolve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Okay, so I managed to get this working & to be honest it's difficult to tell exactly what it was I did which fixed the issue.

Basically, I had wrapped all my controls inside a main view in order to be able to apply a total height constraint to it. That view did have user interaction enabled, but it seems like it wasn't passing the events through for some reason.

In any case, I removed that wrapping view & everything is now working.

shrug

Answer 2

I actually embedded all my header.xib controls into a View. After that, I was able to click on the buttons.