adding padding between two cells in TableView-CodePudding

created a basic chat application using websocket, and for a proper look I want to give my each cell a little bit padding. But really couldn't figure out how to do that currently tried below solution but it only gives padding "inside my cell" which I want "outside padding"

tried

import UIKit

class CellView: UITableViewCell {

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        super.layoutSubviews()
        self.backgroundColor = .systemBlue
        self.layer.cornerRadius = 10
       
      
      
    }
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        contentView.frame = contentView.frame.inset(by: UIEdgeInsets(top: 8, left: 8, bottom: 8, right: 8))
    }
    override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)

        // Configure the view for the selected state
    }

}

tried

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForFooterInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
        return CGFloat(15.0)
    }
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, viewForFooterInSection section: Int) -> UIView? {
        let v = UIView()
        v.backgroundColor = .clear
        return v
    }

CodePudding user response：

There is no such concept as the space between cells in UITableView.

Your best bet is to add padding to the content of the cell itself.

So, instead of having a cell of height 80 with content height 80. Change the row height to 100 and keep the content at height 80.

By doing that you now have created a “space” of 20 between each cell.