Built-in UITableViewCell's Styles (UITableViewCellStyle)

UITableView has some built-in styles which can be use with in most scenario. You might want to look into these styles before starting to built a customize TableViewCell.

There are 4 types of styles for the UITableViewCell, enum representation of this is UITableViewCellStyle. The details is as follow:

•  UITableViewCellStyleDefault, Default style with label on the left. 

•  UITableViewCellStyleValue1, Label on the left, and a blue label on the right. 

•  UITableViewCellStyleValue2, Blue label on the left side (right aligned text), label on the right side (left aligned text). 

•  UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle, This is almost same with the Default style except that it has a grey smaller text under the label. It functions as the description / subtitles.

To change the default style of a UITableViewCell, replace the styles enum in initWithStyle with any of the enum mentioned above, simple as that. Example:

// ObjC version

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView 
         cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault 
                                      reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    }
    
    // Configure the cell...
    return cell;
}

// Swift version

override func tableView(tableView: UITableView!, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath?) -> UITableViewCell? {
    let cellIdentifier = "Cell"
    var cell: UITableViewCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier(cellIdentifier) as UITableViewCell

    if !cell {
        cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier: cellIdentifier)
    }

    // Configure the cell...
    return cell
}