Labels aligning in UITableViewCell

cocoa-touch, iphone, uitableview

Solution

Here is another solution without subclassing cells, so it certainly works with different table styles. (I haven't checked other solutions.) The title and detail strings are declared in my UITableViewController header and already defined. They aren''t very long, certainly well within height 4000!

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{

    CGRect frame = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
    CGFloat width = frame.size.width;

    int section = indexPath.section;
    int row = indexPath.row;

    NSString *title_string = [title_strings_array objectAtIndex:row];
    NSString *detail_string = [detail_strings_array objectAtIndex:row];

    CGSize title_size = {0, 0};
    CGSize detail_size = {0, 0};

    if (title_string && [title_string isEqualToString:@""] == NO ) {
        title_size = [title_string sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:22.0]
                              constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(width, 4000)
                                  lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
    }

    if (detail_string && [title_string isEqualToString:@""] == NO ) {
        detail_size = [detail_string sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:18.0]
                                constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(width, 4000)
                                    lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
    }

    CGFloat title_height = title_size.height;
    CGFloat detail_height = detail_size.height;

    CGFloat content_size = title_height + detail_height;

    CGFloat height;

    switch ( section ) {

        case 0:
            height = content_size;
            break;

        //Just in case  
        default:
            height = 44.0;
            break;

    }

    return height;

}

Problem

I use UITableView with cells created using UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle. Every cell's height is dynamically adjusted using the ``` - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath ``` delegate method. The problem you can see on the picture (note: image updated) http://img.skitch.com/20090715-g7srxgee2d7fhi5rab2wufrdgm.png How to set up align of textLabel and detailTextLabel to the top of the cell? (I really don't wont to do it by subclassing UITableViewCell and overriding layoutSubviews) Thanx

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