Question

An html file is loaded into webview and that html contains a div like:

<div id="test">hello</div>

and iOS code as follows. However I receive always an empty value. What I am missing? Thank you

-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {

    NSString *body = [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:
                      @"document.getElementById('test').value"];

    NSLog(@"received data: %@", body);

}

Answer 1

It’s a bit kludgy, but you can get to the text value (which is a text node and child of the element node you are currently using) by using the following…

document.getElementById('test').firstChild.data

Hope that helps