UITableViewController select header for section

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This isn’t radically different than @rckoenes answer, but it does provide a more orthodox way of handling events on views rather than using invisible buttons.

I’d rather add a UITapGestureRecognizer to my header view instead of adding invisible buttons and resizing them:

UITapGestureRecognizer *singleTapRecogniser = [[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleGesture:)] autorelease];
[singleTapRecogniser setDelegate:self];
singleTapRecogniser.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
singleTapRecogniser.numberOfTapsRequired = 1;   
[yourHeaderView addGestureRecognizer:singleTapRecogniser];

and then:

- (void) handleGesture:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer;

You can use gesture.view to see which was touched. Then do whatever you need to do to find out which header it was (tags, data array lookup… )

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