Is it possible to display an html present in my NSString into a UIWebView?
My solution is to write the html into a file and afterwards, parse it like this:
[WebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"]isDirectory:NO]]];
However, I would prefer a more elegant solution.
Use UIWebView loadHTMLString method.
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I've tried almost every way of loading an html file into an UIWebView that has images and resouces in the main bundle. The web page always loads but I can never get the images to show up.
NSString *html = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"];
NSString *htmldata = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:html encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
[webView loadHTMLString:htmldata baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
the HTML code has css:
background: url('image.png')
I've also assured that the file exists in the bundle when the app is run using other methods, but still no luck. Anyone see what's wrong with my code???
Instead of loading the HTML directly with loadHTMLString, you can have the web view do the work of loading the HTML from the bundled file. That way it should know where the HTML came from to resolve relative links.
Ex:
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"]];
[webview loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];
I haven't tested the above, you may need the inDirectory clause of the pathForResource method. Good luck!
This is an old post, but I think a way to make this work is to change the following line:
[webView loadHTMLString:htmldata baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
to:
[webView loadHTMLString:htmldata baseURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]];
The method in the comment and jimbojw's answer works too, but in my case htmldata is not retrieved from a file, but instead is in memory.
I'm loading a UIWebView using the loadHTMLString method and depending on the connection speed, the images are sometimes not loaded and I just see a blank rectangle instead of the images. Has anyone seen this issue? Please note that the images are external links.
Maybe you need to set your baseURL. How does your HTML img sections look like? Are you referencing the entire hyperlink including the http://? Make sure the full link is in there and you should have no problem. If you are referencing the images locally in your bundle you use:
NSString *htmlFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"filename" ofType:#"html"];
NSString *HTMLData = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:htmlFile];
[webView loadHTMLString:HTMLData baseURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]]];
NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:webUrl];
[self.WebView loadRequest:req];
if images are only external hyperlink
I have an application that displays search tips. This will work if I store an .html file in the main bundle and display it using the Apple example code:
-(void)loadDocument:(NSString*)documentName inView:(UIWebView*)webView
{
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:documentName ofType:nil];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:request];
}
//load document --
[self loadDocument:#"searchTipsLegislators.html" inView:searchTips];
If however I change the document to one created using a compressed Pages file the app return the error:
2010-12-15 08:53:04.537 cv112[42067:7003] Cannot load iWorkImport
2010-12-15 08:53:04.538 cv112[42067:7003] Failed to generate preview
Has anyone gotten this to work?
Two things to try:
Don't compress the pages document. This is no longer necessary as of iOS 3.
Don't expect this to work on Simulator. Does it work on your device?
I am trying to display a PDF I have stored locally in a UIWebView. This is how I currently attempt to do this:
if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:self.url]) {
LOG_ERROR(#"Couldn't load local file. File at path: %# doesn't exist", self.url);
return;
}
nsurl=[NSURL fileURLWithPath:self.url];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:self.url];
LOG_DEBUG(#"data length:%d",[data length]);
[self.webView loadData:data MIMEType:#"application/pdf" textEncodingName:#"utf-8" baseURL:nil];
I have also tried passing nil for textEncoding, as well as using UIWebView's loadRequest. The result is a UIWebView that displays a blank page. No errors occur in the UIWebView delegate method. The strange thing is that data has the correct length, in bytes, for the PDF I am trying to display, which means the file is being found and loaded correctly.
Does anyone have an idea as to what might be going wrong here or how I can better debug this problem?
Below you can find two different approaches to open a .pdf file on your UIWebView; one from a url and one as NSData:
if (self.pdfDataToLoad) //Loading the pdf as NSData
{
[self.webView loadData:self.pdfData
MIMEType:#"application/pdf"
textEncodingName:#"UTF-8"
baseURL:nil];
}
else //Open the pdf from a URL
{
NSURL *targetURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:targetURL];
[self.webView loadRequest:request];
}
It turns out the problem was something to do with the file format of the PDFs. I edited them using Illustrator and re-saved them. I guess Mobile Safari doesn't like the way Illustrator formatted the files because each was blank when viewed using the simulator's browser (although I could open the PDFs in regular Safari just fine).
The solution was to open the PDFs using Preview and re-save them. After running each PDF through the Preview save routine I was able to get each PDF to display in a UIWebView without changing any of my code.
You don't need NSData to load local file, loadRequest should work directly with NSURL
[self.webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:nsurl]];
I can only suggest to make NSURL like that
nsurl = [NSURL URLWithString:[self.url stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSData is used to load the pdf files when they are stored locally in any of the directories.
To load the pdf which was in your application, use the following code .
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"FileNameHere"
ofType:#"pdf"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:request];
I want to show a local image in the webview , How to do ? somebody has a easy demo ? thanks a lot!!!
The best way to do is set the baseURL to the Bundles Path. Then from there you can call images from your Bundle like so:
NSString *bundlePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSURL *bundleBaseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath: bundlePath];
[webView loadHTMLString:htmlContent baseURL: bundleBaseURL];
The Image in your HTML can then call local images directly.
<img src="yourImageFromTheMainBundle.jpg" />
The same can be used to call CSS files or even JS files because the baseURL looks inside the main Bunble.
If its not in your main bundle, all you have to do is change the baseURL to the path of where the image is located.
NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:localImagePath];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:imageURL];
[[webView mainFrame] loadRequest:request];