Question

I have an app with a UIWebView inside a UIViewController. I load HTML from a web service as a string like this:

self.webView loadHTMLString:_string baseURL:nil

Is it possible for the HTML links in this string to be opened in the browser and not in the UIWebView in my app? How can I do this?

I have tried this in the UIViewController that “hosts” the UIWebVIew:

-(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
   if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {
     [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[request URL]];
     return NO;
   }
   return YES;
}

It doesn’t seem to be working….

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have you set the delegate of the UIWebView to your UIViewController? There’s nothing obviously wrong with your code as far as I can see, so it’s likely to be something small like that.