Question

I’m trying to use a UIWebView for the first time but I can’t seem to make it load a page. The screen just remains blank.

I have a UIWebView in my storyboard. My controller.h:

@interface fishcoViewController : UIViewController{
    IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;
}

My controller.m

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http:/www.google.com"];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [webView loadRequest:request];
}

Shouldn’t the code in controller.m run when the view loads, which should make the webpage load? Instead I’m just seeing a blank page.

Answer 1

You forgot – [self.webView loadRequest:request]; This is what actually loads your url into the webView & it starts fetching from the net.