How to copy image from UIWebView

[svjim]

I would like to be able use copy and paste with an image in a UIWebView. Unfortunately, the touch and hold gesture doesn't seem to work with a UIWebView. I can get an image copied to the pasteboard occasionally by double tapping but it is not consistent.

Basically I want a way to copy and image from the UIWebView and then copy it to an UIImage.

Any insights, ideas are appreciated.

Jim

[Tambourin]

you can take a screenshot and then crop the image to get only the webview

[svjim]

Originally Posted by Tambourin

you can take a screenshot and then crop the image to get only the webview

That might work as a last resort, but I am looking for something a bit more sophisticated. Ideally there would be some way to get the appropriate image tag from the html body. There must be some way to do that as safari already does it. In what is probably an over simplification of the problem, I would envision getting the x-y coordinates from a touch event and then search the document for an element that encompasses the coordinate.

Jim