---
title: allowsSelectionDuringEditing
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uitableview/allowsselectionduringediting
---

# allowsSelectionDuringEditing

A Boolean value that determines whether users can select cells while the table view is in editing mode.

## Declaration

```swift
var allowsSelectionDuringEditing: Bool { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Handling row selection in a table view

## Discussion

Discussion If the value of this property is true, users can select rows during editing. The default value is false. If you want to restrict selection of cells regardless of mode, use allowsSelection.

## See Also

### Selecting rows

- [indexPathForSelectedRow](uikit/uitableview/indexpathforselectedrow.md)
- [indexPathsForSelectedRows](uikit/uitableview/indexpathsforselectedrows.md)
- [selectRow(at:animated:scrollPosition:)](uikit/uitableview/selectrow(at:animated:scrollposition:).md)
- [deselectRow(at:animated:)](uikit/uitableview/deselectrow(at:animated:).md)
- [allowsSelection](uikit/uitableview/allowsselection.md)
- [allowsMultipleSelection](uikit/uitableview/allowsmultipleselection.md)
- [allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing](uikit/uitableview/allowsmultipleselectionduringediting.md)
- [selectionFollowsFocus](uikit/uitableview/selectionfollowsfocus.md)
- [selectionDidChangeNotification](uikit/uitableview/selectiondidchangenotification.md)