Space UITableViewCells in a UITableView

Put gaps between!

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Before we start

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3

Prerequisites

This article is based on the [UITableView Programmatic Example](), and builds on that (although the code is given in this article

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Keywords and Terminology

Row: The content in a UITableview is ordered into rows

Section: A grouping of rows in a UITableView

UITableView: A view that presents data using rows arranged in a single column

UITableViewCell: The visual representation of a single row in a table view

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Background

Before we look at how to put spaces in between UITableViewCells, let us look at some of the background of UITableView.

When we use a UITableView the view is made up of UITableViewCells