title: UITableView - Highlighting Selected Cell [iOS]
body: <p>I have created a UITableView with customising a TableCell, generally following this tutorial;</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.theappcodeblog.com/?p=353" rel="noreferrer">http://www.theappcodeblog.com/?p=353</a></p>
  
  <p>I have customised it to my needs and it looks fantastic.  However, when I select a row it highlights that row by changing the entire thing blue.  This highlight covers the entire cell and overrides the content, effectively making a big blue box which looks nasty.  I have tried the alternate highlight options of</p>
  
  <pre><code>cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
  cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue;
  cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Obviously if selected as gray, the same behaviour happens but with a gray ugly box.  'None' is the desirable option at the minute, but doesn't provide a good experience to my users as i'd like to give some indication that they have selected that row.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone suggest a way to show that the row is highligted, but still show the text underneath?  Semi opacity? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>