Question

I have a WebView which loads content from the Internet.
If I have a link which uses the ‘_blank’ attribute, nothing happens.

So far I have tried setting my WebView delegate but I can’t get it to register, I can’t even get an NSLog back so I must be using it wrong. The code is as follows:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
    [tmpView setUIDelegate:self];
}

- (WebView *)webView:(WebView *)sender createWebViewWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
{
    NSLog(@"HEY THERE");
    return sender;
}

Ideally what I’d like, is that whenever a link is clicked on a WebView, the link is always opened within that WebView, nowhere else.

Is this possible?

Through research I found other methods but have no idea how to use them to get the result I desire:

webView:decidePolicyForNewWindowAction:request:newFrameName:decisionListener:

I’m completely stumped so I’d really appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Answer 1

If you don’t want to open a new window but just open the request in your current WebView object, you just need to do this in your delegate:

- (WebView *)webView:(WebView *)sender createWebViewWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
{
    [[sender mainFrame] loadRequest:request];
    return sender;
}