---
title: "section(forSectionIndexTitle:)"
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "uikit/uilocalizedindexedcollation/section(forsectionindextitle:)"
---

# section(forSectionIndexTitle:)

Returns the section that the table view should scroll to for the given index title.

## Declaration

```swift
func section(forSectionIndexTitle indexTitleIndex: Int) -> Int
```

## Parameters

- `indexTitleIndex`: An integer identifying a section-index title by its position in the array of such titles.

## Return Value

Return Value An integer identifying the table-view section associated with indexTitleIndex.

## Discussion

Discussion This method allows the table view to map between a given item in the section index and a given section even when there isn’t a one-to-one mapping. In its implementation of tableView(_:sectionForSectionIndexTitle:at:), the data source can call this method on the indexed-collation object specifying as an argument the passed-in index integer; it then returns the result to the table view.

## See Also

### Providing section index data to the table view

- [sectionTitles](uikit/uilocalizedindexedcollation/sectiontitles.md)
- [sectionIndexTitles](uikit/uilocalizedindexedcollation/sectionindextitles.md)