I'm looking for a way to disable the "pinch to zoom" magnification gesture on the iOS implementation of WKWebView. There is a magnification BOOL property available for OS X but it doesn't seem to be available on iOS.
WKWebView.h
#if !TARGET_OS_IPHONE
/* #abstract A Boolean value indicating whether magnify gestures will
change the web view's magnification.
#discussion It is possible to set the magnification property even if
allowsMagnification is set to NO.
The default value is NO.
*/
#property (nonatomic) BOOL allowsMagnification;
I've, also, tried look at the WKWebView's gesture recognizers but that seems to be turning up an empty array. I'm assuming the actual recognizers are bured deeper in the component's structure (fairly complex, by the looks of it) and would rather not go digging for them if at all possible.
I know of possible hacks that could potentially disable the gesture from firing (selectively passing gestures to the WebView, add child view to capture pinch gesture, etc) but I've always found those introduce lag into the event and want to keep the implementation as clean/hack free as possible.
You can prevent your users from zooming by setting the delegate of your WKWebKit's UIScrollView and implementing viewForZooming(in:) as in the following:
class MyClass {
let webView = WKWebView()
init() {
super.init()
webView.scrollView.delegate = self
}
deinit() {
// Without this, it'll crash when your MyClass instance is deinit'd
webView.scrollView.delegate = nil
}
}
extension MyClass: UIScrollViewDelegate {
func viewForZooming(in scrollView: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return nil
}
}
I have tried setting minimumZoomScale and maximumZoomScale properties of UIScrollView to 1 or isMultipleTouchEnabled property of UIView to false or returning nil from invoking viewForZooming(in:) of UIScrollViewDelegate but none worked. In my case, after several trial and error, the following works in my case [Tested on iOS 10.3]:
class MyViewController: UIViewController {
var webView: WKWebView?
override viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//...
self.webView.scrollView.delegate = self
//...
}
}
extension MyViewController: UIScrollViewDelegate {
func scrollViewWillBeginZooming(_ scrollView: UIScrollView, with view: UIView?) {
scrollView.pinchGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false
}
}
The below answer no longer works in iOS 10 beta.
To improve accessibility on websites in Safari, users can now
pinch-to-zoom even when a website sets user-scalable=no in the
viewport.
WKWebView seems to respect the viewport meta tag the same way Mobile Safari does (as to be expected). So, I found injecting that tag into the DOM through javascript after a page load does the trick. I would be weary of this solution unless you know exactly what HTML is being loaded into the webview, otherwise I suspect it would have unintended consequences. In my case, I'm loading HTML strings, so I can just add it to the HTML I ship with the app.
To do it generically for any webpage:
- (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView didCommitNavigation:(WKNavigation *)navigation {
NSString *javascript = #"var meta = document.createElement('meta');meta.setAttribute('name', 'viewport');meta.setAttribute('content', 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no');document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);";
[webView evaluateJavaScript:javascript completionHandler:nil];
}
It might be wise to take a look at what kind of navigation has just been completed, since only a new page will need this javascript executed.
Complete working code to disable zooming in WkWebView in Swift.
import UIKit
import WebKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKUIDelegate {
var webView : WKWebView!
override func loadView() {
let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration:webConfiguration)
webView.uiDelegate = self
let source: String = "var meta = document.createElement('meta');" +
"meta.name = 'viewport';" +
"meta.content = 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no';" +
"var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];" + "head.appendChild(meta);";
let script: WKUserScript = WKUserScript(source: source, injectionTime: .atDocumentEnd, forMainFrameOnly: true)
webView.configuration.userContentController.addUserScript(script)
view = webView
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let myUrl = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")
let myRequest = URLRequest(url: myUrl!)
webView.load(myRequest)
}
}
The native solutions were not working for me, and injecting JS is not ideal. I noticed that when a zoom occurs and my delegate is called, the pinchGestureRecognizer is enabled even though I disabled it when initializing the webview. To fix this, I set it to disabled whenever a zoom starts:
extension ViewController: UIScrollViewDelegate {
// disable zooming in webview
func scrollViewWillBeginZooming(_ scrollView: UIScrollView, with view: UIView?) {
scrollView.pinchGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false
}
}
Full Swift 3 / iOS 10 version of Landschaft's answer:
import UIKit
import WebKit
class MyViewController: UIViewController, UIScrollViewDelegate {
var webView = WKWebView()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.view.addSubview(webView)
webView.scrollView.delegate = self
}
// Disable zooming in webView
func viewForZooming(in: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return nil
}
}
You can use UIScrollViewDelegate for this. First assign delegate to your webview in viewDidLoad() or any other suitable method as:
class LoginViewController: UIViewController, WKUIDelegate, UIScrollViewDelegate {
override func viewDidLoad() {
webView.scrollView.delegate = self
}
//Add this delegate method in your view controller
func scrollViewWillBeginZooming(_ scrollView: UIScrollView, with view: UIView?) {
scrollView.pinchGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false
}
}
In case you display a local html you could just modify this html and put this meta tag to your html:
<head>
<meta content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0' name='viewport' />
</head>
A simple way to prevent zooming
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
webView.scrollView.delegate = self
}
func scrollViewDidZoom(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
scrollView.setZoomScale(1.0, animated: false)
}
Swift 2.0
extension WKWebView {
func viewForZoomingInScrollView(scrollView: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return nil
}
}
If it's not important for you to handle links inside html (say you want to display text only) the simplest would be to turn off user interaction
webView.userInteractionEnabled = false
this is how I disabled zoom for Swift3 view controller for one-webview-only app
import UIKit
import WebKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate, UIScrollViewDelegate {
#IBOutlet var webView: WKWebView!
override func loadView() {
webView = WKWebView()
webView.navigationDelegate = self
view = webView
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
webView.scrollView.delegate = self
}
func viewForZooming(in: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return nil;
}
}
I don't have enough reputation to add comments to answers, but I wanted to mention that Kevin's solution (meta viewport) no longer works in iOS 10 beta. Landschaft's solution is working for me, though!
Since the JS solution uses W3C standards, it should always be supported.
Ah, Kevin, I wish that were how these things worked.
More here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37859168/1389714
Disable double tap to zoom gesture by require failure of gesture recognizer. It will prevent the browser to take action when user double tap.
import UIKit
class DisableDoubleTapRecognizer : UITapGestureRecognizer, UIGestureRecognizerDelegate{
override init(target: Any?, action: Selector?) {
super.init(target: target, action: action)
}
init() {
super.init(target:nil, action: nil)
self.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
self.delegate = self;
}
func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRequireFailureOf otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
return true;
}
}
//in your view controller
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
webView.addGestureRecognizer(DisableDoubleTapRecognizer())
}
Here's a slightly modified version of Gulshan Kumar's answer that worked for me in iOS 12.1.2, and it also prevents zooming due to double-taps and rotation. In my example, I just inject the script directly into the web view. I adjusted the scale to 60%, and there's no need to use concatenation in building up the source string.
let source = "var meta = document.createElement('meta'); meta.name = 'viewport'; meta.content = 'width=device-width, initial-scale=0.6, maximum-scale=0.6, user-scalable=no'; var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; head.appendChild(meta);"
let script = WKUserScript(source: source, injectionTime: .atDocumentEnd, forMainFrameOnly: true)
webView.configuration.userContentController.addUserScript(script)
We need to change the delegate call with following signatures in XCode 8:
override func viewForZooming(in scrollView: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return nil
}
The application I work on needed the view to be zoomed by Javascript. The accepted answer blocked zooming by JavaScript from inside the page too.
I only needed to disable pinch gesture by the user of the appliction. The only solution I've found is to disable the gesture of the web view after the page has loaded:
- (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView didFinishNavigation:(WKNavigation *)navigation {
/* disable pinch gesture recognizer to allow zooming the web view by code but prevent zooming it by the user */
for (UIGestureRecognizer *gr in self.webView.scrollView.gestureRecognizers) {
if ([gr isKindOfClass:[UIPinchGestureRecognizer class]]) {
gr.enabled = NO;
}
}
}
If it is better to disbaled the Pinch zoom when the webpage finish loading, and it can also specify which particular URL is going to be disbaled
public func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) {
if let url = webView.url, url.absoluteString == "***" {
webView.scrollView.pinchGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false
}
print("finish")
}
For obj-c., add UIScrollViewDelegate protocol.
/* somewhere else, for example in viewDidLoad() */
_wkWeb.scrollView.delegate = self;
..
- (void)scrollViewWillBeginZooming:(UIScrollView *)scrollView withView:(UIView *)view {
scrollView.pinchGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
}
This worked for me. https://gist.github.com/paulofierro/5b642dcde5ee9e86a130
let source: String = "var meta = document.createElement('meta');" +
"meta.name = 'viewport';" +
"meta.content = 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no';" +
"var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];" + "head.appendChild(meta);";
let script: WKUserScript = WKUserScript(source: source, injectionTime: .atDocumentEnd, forMainFrameOnly: true)
let userContentController: WKUserContentController = WKUserContentController()
let conf = WKWebViewConfiguration()
conf.userContentController = userContentController
userContentController.addUserScript(script)
let webView = WKWebView(frame: CGRect.zero, configuration: conf)
If the webview is user for read-only purposes, i.e, just for displaying the web content use
webView.isUserInteractionEnabled = false
By this the zoom gesture won't work on it.
Related
I want a transparent web page in swift, so I have tried the below code according to this answer. Still, I am not getting a transparent web page. nothing changes in webview colour.. may I know why??
where am I going wrong? please help me in below code.
Total code:
import UIKit
import WebKit
class WebviewViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var testWebView: WKWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
guard let url = URL(string: "https://developer.apple.com/swift/") else { return }
let request = URLRequest(url: url)
testWebView.load(request)
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
self.testWebView = WKWebView()
self.testWebView!.isOpaque = false
self.testWebView!.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
self.testWebView!.scrollView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
}
}
Please help me with the code.
the code to make transparent background is as follow what you already added.
self.testWebView!.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
now question is you added right code already then why you are not getting reliable output ..?
Also , if you try
self.testWebView!.alpha with any value, it will affect all of WebPages as WkWebView is a single view and changing it's alpha will also affect the components within...
it happened because the page you load in WebViewController has some HTML and CSS code, you make your WebViewController transparent but because of that HTML &CSS you can't see it's transparency as each webpage has it's own background color settings (which is merely impossible to change for each webpage)
I hope you will understand and it will help you ...:)
as I see, you use storyboard (#IBOutlet) and you can use Storyboard for setting your WKWebView:
And about code. This is enough for the result. You shouldn't set again self.testWebView = WKWebView(), because you use storyboard and you can set isOpaque with storyboard. As result:
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {
#IBOutlet var webView: WKWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
webView.navigationDelegate = self
let url = URL(string: "https://developer.apple.com/swift/")!
webView.load(URLRequest(url: url))
}
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) {
let js = "(function() { document.body.style.background='transparent'; })();"
webView.evaluateJavaScript(js) { (_, error) in
print(error)
}
}
}
and evaluateJavaScript helped to add transparency for background:
I am fairly new to iOS development and I'm using a WKWebView to display a page that plays a video using the Vimeo Player. When the app starts up, it shows the view correctly, no matter what orientation it is currently in. However, once I change the orientation the view will either look zoomed in or has whitespace below the video.
The annoying thing about this is that it's not consistent. Sometimes the view displays correctly, sometimes it doesn't. If I try to zoom the view in or out or try to scroll when using the app it usually corrects itself, but even that does not seem to be 100% reliable.
Some screenshots (tested on iPad 2):
Landscape orientation (correct):
Portrait orientation (correct):
Landscape orientation (incorrect):
Portrait orientation (incorrect):
And the code used to produce this result:
import Foundation
import UIKit
import WebKit
class VideoViewController : UIViewController, WKScriptMessageHandler {
#IBOutlet var containerView : UIView! = nil
var webView: WKWebView?
override func loadView() {
super.loadView()
self.webView = WKWebView()
let contentController = WKUserContentController();
let scaleToFit = WKUserScript(source: "var meta = document.createElement('meta'); meta.setAttribute('name', 'viewport'); meta.setAttribute('content', 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0'); document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);", injectionTime: WKUserScriptInjectionTime.AtDocumentStart, forMainFrameOnly: true)
contentController.addUserScript(scaleToFit)
contentController.addScriptMessageHandler(self, name: "callbackHandler")
self.view = webView!
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
refreshUI()
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
func refreshUI() {
let url = NSURL(string: "https://photofactsacademy.nl/api/vp.asp?id=152839850")
let requestObj = NSURLRequest(URL: url!)
webView!.loadRequest(requestObj)
}
func userContentController(userContentController: WKUserContentController, didReceiveScriptMessage message: WKScriptMessage) {
if(message.name == "callbackHandler") {
print("JavaScript is sending a message \(message.body)")
}
}
}
I looked through SO for WKWebView and orientation change and didn't find anything that helped me.
Your help is appreciated.
Can you try this
wkWebView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
I was able to solve this problem by injecting a javascript reload call like this:
Swift:
func viewWillTransitionToSize(size: CGSize, withTransitionCoordinator coordinator: UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator) {
coordinator.animateAlongsideTransition(nil, completion: {
//Reset Frame of Webview
webView.evaluateJavaScript("location.reload();", completionHandler: nil)
}
Objective C:
-(void)viewWillTransitionToSize:(CGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator {
//Reset Frame of Webview
[_webView evaluateJavaScript:#"location.reload();" completionHandler:^(id _Nullable obj, NSError * _Nullable error) {
NSLog(#"error:%#", error);
}];
}
You don't need to reload the entire web page. You just need to reload its input views. Make sure you have set constraints to web view properly and then add below code while changing orientation.
// Reload inputs so that webview can adjust its content according to orientation
[self.webView reloadInputViews];
After few hours of struggling, this is what worked for me:
<header><meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, shrink-to-fit=no'></header><body style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width:100%; height:100%;'>...
Set width and height of both body and your video element to 100% and disable user scaling through header tag.
I have a UIViewController with a few UIViews (built using Interface Builder) including one that I want to use as a WKWebView. I have been able to create the WKWebView and load it as a subview to one of these UIViews -- but when I load the URL I get this strange padding on the top and left. I had the same issue when I use the UIWebView but was able to solve it using
self.automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = false;
However this does not seem to help at all with the WKWebView that has been loaded dynamically.
I also get the same padding when loading a page from the web so I know its not in my local html.
Edit: I am beginning to wonder whether autolayout in the container UIView is causing this...
Here is the relevant code:
var webView:WKWebView!
#IBOutlet var containerView : UIView?
#IBOutlet weak var webContainer: UIView!
override func loadView() {
super.loadView()
self.webView = WKWebView()
if(self.webView != nil){
self.containerView = self.webView!
self.containerView!.frame = self.webContainer.frame
self.webContainer.addSubview(self.containerView!)
}
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let bundle = NSBundle.mainBundle()
let url = bundle.URLForResource("index", withExtension: "html")
let request = NSURLRequest(URL: url!)
webView.loadRequest(request)
}
Here is what it looks like. The BG color of the UIView container is dark grey -- and you'll also note that the html seems to extend beyond the UIView even though I set the frame of the WebView to be the same as the UIView container:
This is because WKWebView preserves space for the navigation bar by using an appropriate contentInset. However, since your WKWebView is a subview, this adjustment is not necessary anymore.
self.webView.scrollView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)
It is important to do this after the viewDidLoad method. For example in didFinishedNavigation in the WKNavigationDelegate
self.automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets = NO;
if (#available(iOS 11.0, *)) {
self.webView.scrollView.contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior = UIScrollViewContentInsetAdjustmentNever;
}
Should be used WKNavigationDelegate
- (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView didCommitNavigation:(WKNavigation *)navigation {
NSString *cssString = #"body { padding:0; margin:0}";
NSString *jsString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"var style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = '%#'; document.head.appendChild(style);", cssString];
[webView evaluateJavaScript:jsString completionHandler:nil];}
I'm trying to accomplish a scenario where I can zoom in on a UIScrollView. I've seen around that the best way to accomplish this is to have an all-encompassing scrollView, which supports scrolling, and having the other UIScrollViewView inside (instead of the normal application of having a UIImageView inside)
Here's what I have:
class Editor: UIViewController, UIScrollViewDelegate {
let menuHeight = CGFloat(60)
var editor: LevelScrollView? = nil
var scrollProxy = UIScrollView()
override func viewDidLoad() {
let contentFrame = CGRectMake(0,menuHeight,self.view.frame.width,self.view.frame.height-menuHeight)
scrollProxy.delegate = self
scrollProxy.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
scrollProxy.frame = contentFrame
scrollProxy.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
scrollProxy.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
scrollProxy.bounces = false
let editor = LevelScrollView(reference: scrollProxy)
self.editor = editor
scrollProxy.addSubview(editor)
scrollProxy.contentSize = self.editor!.contentSize
scrollProxy.minimumZoomScale = 1.0
scrollProxy.zoomScale = scrollProxy.minimumZoomScale
scrollProxy.maximumZoomScale = 20.0
}
func scrollViewWillBeginZooming(scrollView: UIScrollView, withView view: UIView?) {
print("scrollViewWillBeginZooming")
}
func scrollViewDidEndZooming(scrollView: UIScrollView, withView view: UIView?, atScale scale: CGFloat) {
print("scrollViewDidEndZooming")
}
func scrollViewDidZoom(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
print("scrollViewDidZoom")
}
func viewForZoomingInScrollView(scrollView: UIScrollView) -> UIView? {
return editor
}
}
A few notes:
LevelScrollView is a UIScrollView
I removed a few things not pertaining to this issue, let me know if it would be helpful to see the entire thing.
The viewForZoomingIn delegate function is being called, with a valid UIView returning (the LevelScrollView), but the other three are never called no matter what I do.
Because of these things zooming isn't working. How would I accomplish this successfully?
Thanks!
The only solution I was able to find for this was to embed the entire scrollview in a separate UIView, and then enable zooming for that.
I've been playing around with web views in swift this evening, but have run into a bit of an issue.
For some reason I'm not able to get the webViewDidStartLoad or webViewDidFinishLoad methods to fire.
In my storyboard, I have an outlet called webView linked to my UIWebView element.
Is anyone able to help me with what I am doing wrong?
This is my viewController.swift file:
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, UIWebViewDelegate {
#IBOutlet var webView : UIWebView
var url = NSURL(string: "http://google.com")
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//load initial URL
var req = NSURLRequest(URL : url)
webView.loadRequest(req)
}
func webViewDidStartLoad(webView : UIWebView) {
//UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
println("AA")
}
func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView : UIWebView) {
//UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = false
println("BB")
}
}
Try this!
var req = NSURLRequest(URL: url)
webView.delegate = self
webView.loadRequest(req)
I experienced the same issue, even I did confirmed the UIWebViewDelete to self and implemented its methods.
//Document file url
var docUrl = NSURL(string: "https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjjwPSnoKfNAhXFRo8KHf6ACGYQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snee.com%2Fxml%2Fxslt%2Fsample.doc&usg=AFQjCNGG4FxPqcT8RXiIRHcLTu0yYDErdQ&sig2=ejeAlBgIZG5B6W-tS1VrQA&bvm=bv.124272578,d.c2I&cad=rja")
let req = NSURLRequest(URL: docUrl!)
webView.delegate = self
//here is the sole part
webView.scalesPageToFit = true
webView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit
webView.loadRequest(req)
above logic worked perfectly with test URl I got from quick google search.
But I when I replaced with mine. webViewDidFinishLoad never get called.
then How we solved?
On backed side we had to define content-type as document in headers. and it works like charm.
So please make sure on your server back-end side as well.
Here's my 2 cents battling with the same problem in SWIFT 3:
class HintViewController: UIViewController, UIWebViewDelegate
Declare the delegate methods this way (note the declaration of the arguments):
func webViewDidStartLoad(_ webView: UIWebView)
func webViewDidFinishLoad(_ webView: UIWebView)
Remember to set self to the webview's delegate property either in Interface Builder (Select the webview, drag from the delegate outlet to the webview from the Connections Inspector OR programmatically: self.webview.delegate = self)
As others noted, setting the delegate of UIWebView and conforming to the UIWebViewDelegate protocol is the best possible solution out there.
For other's who might make it here. I had put my delegate methods in a private extension which couldn't be accessed by the delegate caller. Once I changed the extension to internal the delegates started to get called properly.
There is my detailed solution for Swift 3:
1) in class declaration write the UIWebViewDelegate. For example:
class MyViewController: UIViewController, UIWebViewDelegate {
2) of course in storyboard make link to your UIViewController like this:
#IBOutlet weak var webView: UIWebView!
3) in the func viewDidLoad add one line:
self.webView.delegate = self
Nothing more. Special thinks to LinusGeffarth and LLIAJLbHOu for idea.