The setSelected:animated: and setHighlighted:animated: methods of UITableViewCell appear to make all of the selected background view's subviews transparent. This is annoying when the selected background view contains views that you intend to be non-transparent (like the custom dividers in this example). It necessitates having to add the colors b…

gistfile1.m

- (id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder*) coder {
    if (self = [super initWithCoder:coder]) {
        self.backgroundView = [self createBackgroundViewWithBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
        self.selectedBackgroundView = [self createBackgroundViewWithBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithWhite:57.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f]];
    }
    return self;
}

- (UIView*) createBackgroundViewWithBackgroundColor:(UIColor*) backgroundColor {
    UIView* backgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.bounds];
    backgroundView.backgroundColor = backgroundColor;
    UIView* lightDivider = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, self.bounds.size.height - 1.0f, self.bounds.size.width, 1.0f)];
    lightDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:75.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    [backgroundView addSubview:lightDivider];
    UIView* darkDivider = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, self.bounds.size.height - 2.0f, self.bounds.size.width, 1.0f)];
    darkDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:37.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    [backgroundView addSubview:darkDivider];
    return backgroundView;
}

- (void) setSelected:(BOOL) selected animated:(BOOL) animated {
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
    if (selected) {
        UIView* lightDivider = [[self.selectedBackgroundView subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
        lightDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:75.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
        UIView* darkDivider = [[self.selectedBackgroundView subviews] objectAtIndex:1];
        darkDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:37.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    }
}

- (void) setHighlighted:(BOOL) highlighted animated:(BOOL) animated {
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted animated:animated];
    if (highlighted) {
        UIView* lightDivider = [[self.selectedBackgroundView subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
        lightDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:75.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
        UIView* darkDivider = [[self.selectedBackgroundView subviews] objectAtIndex:1];
        darkDivider.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:37.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0f];
    }
}