单元格选择的背景颜色可以通过界面构建器中的Storyboard设置:

自定义单元格类。覆盖:

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];

    // Configure the view for the selected state

    if (selected) {
        [self setBackgroundColor: CELL_SELECTED_BG_COLOR];
        [self.contentView setBackgroundColor: CELL_SELECTED_BG_COLOR];
    }else{
        [self setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
        [self.contentView setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
    }
}

如果你正在使用一个自定义的TableViewCell，你也可以覆盖awakeFromNib:

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()

    // Set background color
    let view = UIView()
    view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
    selectedBackgroundView = view
}

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleGray];

确保你已经使用了上面的行来使用选择效果

当表视图样式是普通的，这很容易，但在组样式，这是一个小麻烦，我解决它:

CGFloat cellHeight = [self tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, kGroupTableViewCellWidth+2, cellHeight)];
view.backgroundColor = kCommonHighlightedColor;
cell.selectedBackgroundView = view;
[view release];
UIRectCorner cornerFlag = 0;
CGSize radii = CGSizeMake(0, 0);
NSInteger theLastRow = --> (yourDataSourceArray.count - 1);
if (indexPath.row == 0) {
    cornerFlag = UIRectCornerTopLeft | UIRectCornerTopRight;
    radii = CGSizeMake(10, 10);
} else if (indexPath.row == theLastRow) {
    cornerFlag = UIRectCornerBottomLeft | UIRectCornerBottomRight;
    radii = CGSizeMake(10, 10);
}
UIBezierPath *maskPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:view.bounds byRoundingCorners:cornerFlag cornerRadii:radii];
CAShapeLayer *shapeLayer = [CAShapeLayer layer];
shapeLayer.path = maskPath.CGPath;
view.layer.mask = shapeLayer;

注意到kGroupTableViewCellWidth，我把它定义为300，这是iPhone中组表视图单元格的宽度

为所有单元格添加背景(使用Maciej的答案):

for (int section = 0; section < [self.tableView numberOfSections]; section++) {
        for (int row = 0; row < [self.tableView numberOfRowsInSection:section]; row++) {
            NSIndexPath* cellPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:row inSection:section];
            UITableViewCell* cell = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:cellPath];

            //stuff to do with each cell
            UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
            bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
            [cell setSelectedBackgroundView:bgColorView];
        }
    }