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iphoneuiwebview
silicosaur
silicosaur

Reputation: 65

How can I search in an UIWebView?

I need to perform search in an html page displayed in a UIWebView control. The functionality I need is something that Safari has, when you hit command/ctrl F for searching the document for some word and the program highlights the hits for you. Is there any easy solution for this problem?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4651

Answers (2)

Scott Kohlert
Scott Kohlert

Reputation: 413

I know it's been a long time since you asked this question, but it's still a pretty common question people have so I put together a sample project in case anyone else is asking the same question. The project is a super simple app that loads an HTML file and can search and highlight any keyword. You can download the sample project here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jietctrvrtnec28/TheSearcher.zip?dl=0

Scott

Edit: changed link above as the old one had broken.

Upvotes: 7

rgcb
rgcb

Reputation: 1111

You could do this with javascript. Check out the "Find in this page" bookmarklet: http://www.lifeclever.com/17-powerful-bookmarklets-for-your-iphone/

Something like that, combined with: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIWebView/stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:

might do the trick.

Upvotes: 5

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