Passing parameters to addTarget:action:forControlEvents

action:@selector(switchToNewsDetails:)

You do not pass parameters to switchToNewsDetails: method here. You just create a selector to make button able to call it when certain action occurs (touch up in your case). Controls can use 3 types of selectors to respond to actions, all of them have predefined meaning of their parameters:

1. with no parameters

   action:@selector(switchToNewsDetails)
   

2. with 1 parameter indicating the control that sends the message

   action:@selector(switchToNewsDetails:)
   

3. With 2 parameters indicating the control that sends the message and the event that triggered the message:

   action:@selector(switchToNewsDetails:event:)
   

It is not clear what exactly you try to do, but considering you want to assign a specific details index to each button you can do the following:

1. set a tag property to each button equal to required index

2. in switchToNewsDetails: method you can obtain that index and open appropriate deatails:

   - (void)switchToNewsDetails:(UIButton*)sender{
       [self openDetails:sender.tag];
       // Or place opening logic right here
   }