I know that this question has been asked a while ago, but the behaviour is still very much needed for some app to have a clickable Cell with UIDataDetectors.
So here's the UITextView subclass I made up to fit this particular behaviour in a UITableView
-(id) initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
self.delegate = self;
}
return self;
}
- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
return NO;
}
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
UIView *obj = self;
do {
obj = obj.superview;
} while (![obj isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]]);
UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell*)obj;
do {
obj = obj.superview;
} while (![obj isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]]);
UITableView *tableView = (UITableView*)obj;
NSIndexPath *indePath = [tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
[[tableView delegate] tableView:tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indePath];
}
- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldInteractWithURL:(NSURL *)URL inRange:(NSRange)characterRange {
return YES;
}
You can modify this to fit your needs...
Hope it helps someone.