How to programmatically select a row in UITableView in Swift

I need to select a row in a UITableView programmatically using Swift 1.2.

This is the simple code:

var index = NSIndexPath(forRow: 0, inSection: 0)
self.tableView.selectRowAtIndexPath(index, animated: true, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition.Middle)
self.tableView(self.tableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath: index)

The above gives me the following error:

>**Cannot invoke 'selectRowAtIndexPath' with an argument list of type '(NSIndexPath!, animated: Bool, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition)'**

What is wrong with my Swift 1.2 code?

My UItableView has been created in IB in the UIViewController that I am trying to call the code above.
When I put the code in a UITableViewController the compiler does not give any errors.
Do I need to embed a UITableViewController in a container or is there another way?

***Reusable function with validation of table size***

Swift 4 and 5

This reusable function works and validate the size of table.

func selectRow(tableView: UITableView, position: Int) {
let sizeTable = tableView.numberOfRows(inSection: 0)
guard position >= 0 && position < sizeTable else { return }
let indexPath = IndexPath(row: position, section: 0)
tableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .middle)
}

you can use it in this way

selectRow(tableView: myTableView, position: pos)



or you can implement this extension:

extension UITableView {
func selectRow(row: Int, section: Int = 0) {
let sizeTable = self.numberOfRows(inSection: section)
guard row >= 0 && row < sizeTable else { return }
let indexPath = IndexPath(row: row, section: section)
self.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .middle)
}
}

and you can use it in this way:

mytableView.selectRow(row: pos, section: 0)

or

mytableView.selectRow(row: pos)

**Swift 3** to **Swift 5** Solution
-----------------------------------

***Selecting a Row***

let indexPath = IndexPath(row: 0, section: 0)
myTableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .bottom)
myTableView.delegate?.tableView!(myTableView, didSelectRowAt: indexPath)

***DeSelecting a Row***

let deselectIndexPath = IndexPath(row: 7, section: 0)
myTableView.deselectRow(at: deselectIndexPath, animated: true)
myTableView.delegate?.tableView!(myTableView, didDeselectRowAt: indexPath)

**Swift 4.2**:

***Select one or more Rows***

let ndx:IndexSet = [1]
// or: let ndx:IndexSet = [1, 2, 3]; // etc
tableview?.selectRowIndexes(ndx, byExtendingSelection: false);

***Deselect a Single Row***

tableview?.deselectRow(current)

Note that if you have (*func tableViewSelectionDidChange(...)*) implemented, that will be triggered by the above.

Also see Charlton Provatas' answer at

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for an extension to NSTableView, that provides a simple

tableview?.selectRow(at:)

Swift 3.x
---------

if you want to do it at the 'cell-creation', you can do it like this

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = TableViewCell()
let item = items[indexPath.row]

cell.textLabel?.text = item.title

if (item.checked) {
tableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: false, scrollPosition: .none)
}

return cell
}

Using **Swift 2.x**, as described by [Pankaj purohit answers][1] the correct method is:

func tapRowAtIndex(index:Int) {
let rowToSelect:NSIndexPath = NSIndexPath(forRow: index, inSection: 0)
self.tableView.selectRowAtIndexPath(rowToSelect, animated: true, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition.None)
self.tableView(self.tableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath: rowToSelect)
}

Keep in mind that if you call this method from an external class for example, you dont know when tableView has finished its loading, so what's the possibilities?, how to workaround this problem? :

**Step one**: create a class boolean var

var automatingTap: Bool = false

**Step two**: check when the table finish its loading and launch an "end operations" method:

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didEndDisplayingCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath)
{
let lastRowIndex = tableView.numberOfRowsInSection(0)
if indexPath.row == lastRowIndex - 1 {
endOperations()
}
}

func endOperations()
{
print("finished loading")
if automatingTap {
tapRowAtIndex(0)
automatingTap = false
}
}

**Step three**: call my tableView class from another class

for example:

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue?, sender: AnyObject?) {
if segue!.identifier == "DetailsTableView" {
let viewController:ViewController = segue!.destinationViewController as ViewController
viewController.automatingTap = true
}
}

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The statement

self.tableView.selectRowAtIndexPath(index, animated: true, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition.Middle)

assumes that `tableView` is a property of the view controller, connected
to a table view in the Storyboard. A `UITableViewController`, for example, already has this
property.

In your case, the view controller is a not a table view controller
but a subclass of a `UIViewController`. It also has an outlet that is
connected to the table view, but it is not called
`tableView` but `menuTable`. Then of course you have to call

self.menuTable.selectRowAtIndexPath(index, animated: true, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition.Middle)

to select a row of that table view.

The strange error messages are caused by the fact that
`self.tableView` can also be understood by the compiler as a
"curried function" (compare

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).

Use below code,after loading your table view with data:

let rowToSelect:NSIndexPath = NSIndexPath(forRow: 0, inSection: 0); //slecting 0th row with 0th section
self.tableView.selectRowAtIndexPath(rowToSelect, animated: true, scrollPosition: UITableViewScrollPosition.None);

now,you have to manually call **didSelectRowAtIndexPath:** delegate method using below code:

self.tableView(self.tableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath: rowToSelect); //Manually trigger the row to select

Thanks.