iOS7's subview trimmed if out of parent view bounds

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18868869/ios7s-subview-trimmed-if-out-of-parent-view-bounds

It's because iOS 7 introduced some changes to the view hierarchy of UITableViewCells.

It used to be UITableViewCell view -> contentView.

Now it's more like UITableViewCell view -> scrollView -> contentView.

The solution is to set clipsToBounds = NO on the scrollView (which is set to YES by default). And the way to achieve that is through the superview property.

So basically in iOS6 and prior, to allow content to spill out of the cell bounds, you would do:

self.clipsToBounds = NO; //cell's view
self.contentView.clipsToBounds = NO; //contentView
In iOS7 you have to also prevent the scrollview from not clipping so you'd do something like:

self.clipsToBounds = NO; //cell's view
self.contentView.clipsToBounds = NO; //contentView
self.contentView.superview.clipsToBounds = NO; //scrollView
And the backwards compatible solution I use is:

self.clipsToBounds = NO;
self.contentView.clipsToBounds = NO;
if ([self.contentView.superview isKindOfClass:[NSClassFromString(@"UITableViewCellScrollView") class]]) self.contentView.superview.clipsToBounds = NO;
Keep in mind this is Hacky™ and if the view hierarchy changes again in iOS 8, you might be in trouble. Unfortunately it seems Apple doesn't want us to spill content out of UITableViewCells so AFAIK this is the only workable solution.