Can't get UILabel to show properly on top of UITableView

I am struggling to achieve what I thought was nothing but a 1' coding bu开发者_开发问答t apparently adding a UILabel above my UITableView in a UITableViewController is not a piece of cake...?

Here is the code (yes basic, I know):

    UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 310, 20)];
    [[self tableView] addSubview:label];

The result can be seen in the screenshot below, the label on the top right is just half displayed, saying "Balance..."

Please note that if I try to change CGRect origin.y or size.height the UILabel is not displayed at all.

I also tried adding the following, with no change in result:

    [[self tableView] bringSubviewToFront:balanceLabel];

I don't care if the UILabel is scrolled up when scrolling up the UITableView, I want it to stick with the first section header.

I know this can be achieved in other ways, using a custom UIView for the header, changing to UIViewController or using a .xib, but really I would like to understand why this happens.

Thanks for any help. F.

It does look like the header is hiding your label, maybe you could try setting the header background to clearColor. Since you have no control on the table view loop I suspect that after your addSubView somewhere the table builds its own header and does another addSubView.