uitableview - iOS: UIView backgroundColor in table view -

so problem pretty weird , little difficult describe. have uitableview each cell has image, , uiview covering part of image. uiview has it's background colour set 30% transparent white, giving appearance of washing out image beneath. there's labels , such on it. these views added single parent container view, added cell's contentview. works fine - until try select cell. reason, whenever cell highlighted, backgroundcolor property on each , every 1 of views set clear, until cell unhighlighted (at point old colour returns).

can explain why happens, , more important if there's way fix it? @ create single pixel image of white, turn uiview uiimageview, , set it's image pixel - that's inelegant @ best. suggestions?

when select cell, implementation of setselected:animated: called , set background color of views included in cell transparent.

simply, can disable selection of cell setting selectionstyle none:

cell.selectionstyle = uitableviewcellselectionstylenone; 

or, if want use result of selection, can override setselected:animated: method , reset background color of uiview