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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:10:20+00:00

I have a UIWebView which is embedded in a UIScrollView. The webView is resized

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I have a UIWebView which is embedded in a UIScrollView. The webView is resized so that the scroll view manages all the scrolling (I need control over the scrolling).

In the webView I have disabled userSelection via ‘-webkit-user-select: none;’

Everything is working fine except one annoying detail. When I hold down my finger on the content before starting to scroll for about a second the scrollView won’t scroll. My best guess is, that it has something to do with userSelection. The time is about the same it usually takes for the copy/paste/magnifying-thing to appear which usually disables scrolling as well.

I am running out of ideas on how to solve this. Every help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

EDIT: Another aspect of the problem is, that the non-scrolling actually triggers JS-Eventhandler (click, mousedown, mouseup) inside my webView which leads to surprising app behavior. The user puts her finger down, waits, scrolls, nothing happens, removes her finger and this is perceived as a click, which feels wrong from a users perspective.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This question is not relevant anymore. As of iOS 5.0 the UIWebView is based on a real UIScrollView and also exposes that UIScrollView via a property. Use that instead.

    And don’t mess with UIWebViews embedded in UIScrollViews anymore. The documentation explicitly advises against that.

    Relevant Documentation

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