# What is a UITableView? So far, we only created static, non-moving views. However, many apps today have views that are scrollable. One way to implement a scrollable view with UIKit is with a `UITableView`. ### What is a UITableView? A `UITableView` is a subclass of `UIScrollView` which is a view that users can scroll through. We can think of a `UITableView` as a list of data. Each item inside of this list is represented by a view called a `UITableViewCell`. Each cell tends to look very similar to one another but are holding different data. ### Examples of a UITableView

### Breaking Down a UITableView A `UITableView` contains **sections** where each section contains **rows**, and each row being represented by a **cell**. Let’s take a look at Settings:

As we can see, a `UITableView` can contain as many sections as it wants, and each section can contain as many rows as it wants. The rows are represented by a `UITableViewCell` which is a view. In the image above, we can see that each cell looks very similar to one another. Each cell contains a `UIImageView` representing the icon as well as a `UILabel` describing that cell. In the next section of this chapter, we’ll learn how to create these custom cells.