disable copying in UIWebView

Shades of Chaos · 07-07-2011, 03:44 PM

Hey all,

I am trying to disable the function in the UIWebView that allows the user to doulbe tap the screen swipe down, creating a blue window that says copy. I am using

Code:

body
{
     width: 300px;
     height: 130px;
     font-family: verdana;
     font-size: small;
     -webkit-touch-callout: none;
     -webkit-user-select: none;
     -webkit-user-drag: none;
     -webkit-user-modify: none;
     -webkit-highlight: none;
}

in my css class but it is still happening. Is there anything else I need to put in there

Thanks
Clinton

dany_dev · 07-08-2011, 04:50 PM

mmm...post the entire code.

Shades of Chaos · 07-08-2011, 05:52 PM

This is all the css code right so far

Code:

body
{
	width: 300px;
	height: 130px;
	font-family: verdana;
	font-size: small;
	-webkit-touch-callout: none;
	-webkit-user-select: none;
	-webkit-user-drag: none;
	-webkit-user-modify: none;
	-webkit-highlight: none;
}

#divContent
{
	position:absolute;
	left:15px;
	top:100px;
	width:500;
	height:500;
	border:thin;
	border-color:#000000;
	background-color:#FFFFCC;
}

#btnTest
{
	position:absolute;
	left:330px;
	top:55px;
}

Vixy · 07-08-2011, 11:32 PM

it has to be in html file

<style type="text/css">
body {-webkit-user-select:none}

</style>

it works for sure!!!

try disabling other options (put //) and only leaving this one

dany_dev · 07-09-2011, 02:23 AM

when i say "post the entire code" i mean also (and mainly) the objective-c part

Shades of Chaos · 07-11-2011, 02:33 PM

Hey Vixy the code you provided didn't work. I was still able to double tap the screen and drag down to make a blue copy window appear.

Dany I can't post my entire code but this is all I do with the web view

Code:

[webView loadData:htmlData MIMEType:@"text/html" textEncodingName:@"UTF-8" baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"/var/mobile/Applications/F0BB0B99-F1B1-4618-A86C-12652EBA0DB6/myApp.app/filesFolder/"]];

Thanks for the help

**smithdale87** · 07-11-2011, 03:53 PM

maybe this article will help ios - Disabling user selection in UIWebView - Stack Overflow

Shades of Chaos · 07-11-2011, 05:19 PM

I already have the first method in place and I tried the other 2. I put the second method in viewDidLoad and webViewDidFinishLoad and it did nothing. I put the third method into my viewcontroller and I got an error. The _copyCutAndPasteEnabled is not declared. So I just declared it as a BOOL but I do not know what to do with that BOOL

Vixy · 07-12-2011, 12:06 PM

this describes what you want

iLessons iLearned: How to Disable UIWebView Selection

if it doesn't work you are probably changing it somewhere else in html, try finding if there are any other occurances

good luck
it worked for me!

Shades of Chaos · 07-12-2011, 12:40 PM

I have no other styles except for this in my html

Code:

<style type="text/css">
body {-webkit-user-select:none;
	-webkit-touch-callout: none;
	-webkit-user-drag: none;
	-webkit-user-modify: none;
	-webkit-highlight: none;}

</style>

And my css looks like

Code:

body
{
	width: 300px;
	height: 130px;
	font-family: verdana;
	font-size: small;
	-webkit-touch-callout: none;
	-webkit-user-select: none;
	-webkit-user-drag: none;
	-webkit-user-modify: none;
	-webkit-highlight: none;
}

#divContent
{
	position:absolute;
	left:15px;
	top:100px;
	width:500;
	height:500;
	border:thin;
	border-color:#000000;
	background-color:#FFFFCC;
}

#btnTest
{
	position:absolute;
	left:330px;
	top:55px;
}

All the copy/paste and magnifying glass have been removed with these styles but I am still able to double tap the screen and swipe down making a blue copy box at the top of my screen.

xqtr · 08-05-2011, 05:06 AM

Does anyone know how to disable copying in UIWebView for 4.3? I've tried every link above, but it doesn't work!

This is my code:

Code:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
	[super viewDidAppear:animated];

	// String attributes - show them in the user interface
	NSString * jsCallBack = @"window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();";    
	[tvtext stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsCallBack];
	
	NSString *myHtml = [NSString stringWithFormat:
						@"<html><head>"
						"<style type=\"text/css\">"
						// Disable Open/Copy/Cancel alert with long link selection
						"* {"
						"-webkit-touch-callout: none;"
						// Disable selection/Copy of UIWebView
						"-webkit-user-select: none;"
						"font-family:Helvetica;"
						//"p {font-size:x-small;}"
						"body {-webkit-user-select:none;}"
						
						"}"
						",</style>"
						"</head><body>%@</body></html>", [referringObject valueForKey:@"stext"]];
	[tvtext loadHTMLString:myHtml baseURL:nil];

}

King.Hu · 10-17-2011, 05:00 AM

Well, I'm new here, and I also found the answer.Here is the html you load into the UIWebView:

HTML Code:

<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-webkit-user-drag: none;
-webkit-user-modify: none;
-webkit-highlight: none;
}
</style>
<div
ontouchstart="touchStart(event);"
></div>
</head>
<body>TextHere with Link<a href=http://developer.apple.com>apple developer</a>
</body>

and then write the code in your view:

Code:

NSString *html=[NSString stringWithString:@"\
<html>\
<head>\
<style type=\"text/css\">\
body {\
-webkit-touch-callout: none;\
-webkit-user-select: none;\
-webkit-user-drag: none;\
-webkit-user-modify: none;\
-webkit-highlight: none;\
}\
</style>\
<div\
ontouchstart=\"touchStart(event);\"\
></div>\
</head>\
<body>%@</body>\
</html>\
"];

[webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

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