---
title: UITableViewPlaceholder
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: uikit/uitableviewplaceholder
---

# UITableViewPlaceholder

An object that contains information about a placeholder cell being inserted into a table.

## Declaration

```swift
@MainActor class UITableViewPlaceholder
```

## Overview

Overview During a drop operation, create a UITableViewDropPlaceholder object (instead of this one) to insert placeholders into your table.

## Topics

### Creating a placeholder cell

- [init(insertionIndexPath:reuseIdentifier:rowHeight:)](uikit/uitableviewplaceholder/init(insertionindexpath:reuseidentifier:rowheight:).md)

### Updating the cell’s content

- [cellUpdateHandler](uikit/uitableviewplaceholder/cellupdatehandler.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Inherited By

- [UITableViewDropPlaceholder](uikit/uitableviewdropplaceholder.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)

## See Also

### Placeholder cells

- [UITableViewDropPlaceholderContext](uikit/uitableviewdropplaceholdercontext.md)
- [UITableViewDropPlaceholder](uikit/uitableviewdropplaceholder.md)