Dismiss keyboard by touching background of UITableView

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This is easily done by creating a UITapGestureRecognizer object (by default this will detect a “gesture” on a single tap so no further customization is required), specifying a target/action for when the gesture is fired, and then attaching the gesture recognizer object to your table view.

E.g. Perhaps in your viewDidLoad method:

UITapGestureRecognizer *gestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(hideKeyboard)];
[self.tableView addGestureRecognizer:gestureRecognizer];

And the hideKeyboard method might look like this:

- (void) hideKeyboard {
    [textField1 resignFirstResponder];
    [textField2 resignFirstResponder];
    ...
    ...
}

Note that the gesture is not fired when touching inside a UITextField object. It is fired though on the UITableView background, footer view, header view and on UILabels inside cells etc.

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