---
title: multipleSelectionBackgroundView
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uitableviewcell/multipleselectionbackgroundview
---

# multipleSelectionBackgroundView

The background view to use for a selected cell when the table view allows multiple row selections.

## Declaration

```swift
var multipleSelectionBackgroundView: UIView? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If this property isn’t nil, this view becomes the background view for a selected cell when the table view allows multiple row selections. You enable multiple row selections through the allowsMultipleSelection and allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing properties of UITableView. A background configuration is mutually exclusive with background views, so you must use one approach or the other. Setting a non-nil value for this property resets backgroundConfiguration to nil.

## See Also

### Configuring the background

- [defaultBackgroundConfiguration()](uikit/uitableviewcell/defaultbackgroundconfiguration().md)
- [backgroundConfiguration](uikit/uitableviewcell/backgroundconfiguration-24e8e.md)
- [automaticallyUpdatesBackgroundConfiguration](uikit/uitableviewcell/automaticallyupdatesbackgroundconfiguration.md)
- [backgroundView](uikit/uitableviewcell/backgroundview.md)
- [selectedBackgroundView](uikit/uitableviewcell/selectedbackgroundview.md)