The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

Table Styles

On the iPhone, tables come in two formats: plain table lists and grouped tables. Plain tables, by default, display on a simple white background with transparent cells. The iOS Settings application uses the grouped style, which displays on a light gray background with each subsection appearing over a white background.

Changing styles requires nothing more than initializing the table view controller with a different style. You can do this explicitly when creating a new instance. This cannot be changed after initialization. Here’s an example:

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myTableViewController = [[UITableViewController alloc]     initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];

When using controllers from XIBs and storyboards, adjust the Table ...