I got this strange issue while working with iPhone SDK 3.1.2.

My UITableViewCell contains 3 UILabel, each of which is assigned a numeric tag from 1 to 3.

<http://img.skitch.com/20100109-gdg9f57999gne3psqmmb3y4nb1.png>

The problem is with the first UILabel (highlighted in the above screenshot): I am unable to set its text to anything. Even NSLog its content gives me a `(null)`.

What's interesting is that when I tried to print the UILabel's class name, I got UITableViewCell instead. 

<http://img.skitch.com/20100110-7jfgipbiskbc9xm68pt3mqfqi.png>

Changing this particular UILabel's tag to other number (e.g. 4) makes it work properly. How strange.

Anyone got an idea?