Iphone – How to adding custom views around a UITableView

All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either:

Objective-C:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

or

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];

Swift 2:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None

Swift 3 and 4.x:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Further, make sure you either don't implement -tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it.

More info here and here

FYI: I've gotten this to work by modifying the tableHeaderView and re-setting it. In this case, i'm adjusting the size of the tableHeaderView when the UIWebView subview has finished loading.

[webView sizeToFit];
CGRect newFrame = headerView.frame;
newFrame.size.height = newFrame.size.height + webView.frame.size.height;
headerView.frame = newFrame;
[self.tableView setTableHeaderView:headerView];