Question

I have tried various solutions provided on this site and others to implement touch events on uiwebview. But still I am not able to do this. Actually, i have created a article reader application. Here, I have added a uiwebview on the normal uiview. Now, I want to trace some user touch events on that particular webview.
When I do this on normal view, it works perfectly. But if I try it on webview. it stops working.
The solutions I tried before are

1. implementing touch methods like
   touchbegan
   touchended
   touchmoved
   touch cancelled

2 implementing uigesturerecognizer
3 implementing window touch events like send event

Now If anyone can help me or tell me where I am doing wrong or a new solution(other than this), then I will be thankful.

Answer 1

Put a transparent UIVIew on top of your UIWebView to capture touches. You can then act on them or optionally pass them down to the UIWebView using the touchesBegan deletage method.

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [self.myUIWebView touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

Check this previous post for details: iOS – forward all touches through a view