Nearly, I had tried every thing to disable copy/paste in UIWebView but nothing worked with me.
I'm loading my UIWebView from a string (array of strings) as follows:
[webView loadHTMLString:
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"float: right\" >%@</p>",css,[[array objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:@"content"]] baseURL:nil ];
I had tried this:
-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView1{
[webView1 stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.style.webkitUserSelect='none';"];
}
and this:
NSString *css =
@"<head><style><body> *{-webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none;}</style> </head> </body> ";
but nothing worked with me especially for iOS 4.2
Nearly, I had tried every thing to disable copy/paste in UIWebView but nothing worked with me.
I'm loading my UIWebView from a string (array of strings) as follows:
[webView loadHTMLString:
[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"float: right\" >%@</p>",css,[[array objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:@"content"]] baseURL:nil ];
I had tried this:
-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView1{
[webView1 stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.style.webkitUserSelect='none';"];
}
and this:
NSString *css =
@"<head><style><body> *{-webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none;}</style> </head> </body> ";
but nothing worked with me especially for iOS 4.2
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Reset to default 7-webkit-user-select: none; /* Disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
will also disable form on Mobile Safari.
It seems it is more plex that that... have a look at this thread on S.O which details all you have to do...
summary: you need to:
modify your CSS (like you do):
<style type="text/css">
* {
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
}
</style>
adding some javascript:
NSString * jsCallBack = @"window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();";
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsCallBack];
disable the copy/paste menu:
- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
BOOL superCanPerform = [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
if (superCanPerform) {
if (action == @selector(copy:) ||
action == @selector(paste:)||
action == @selector(cut:))
{
return _copyCutAndPasteEnabled;
}
}
return superCanPerform;
}
canPerformAction should be defined in your UIWebView; you have two options for that:
defining a category for UIWebView (if it's ok to remove this behaviour from all of your UIWebViews);
derive your own web view class from
UIWebViewand override that method in there.
Use this.
<style type="text/css">
*:not(input):not(textarea) {
-webkit-user-select: none; /* disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* disable the IOS popup when long-press on a link */
}
</style>
If you want Disable only anchor button tag use this.
a {-webkit-user-select: none; /* disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* disable the IOS popup when long-press on a link */
}