Question

In my app i am using UITextView to display three lines. In that i need to add link for certain text. I am searched in google and SO, but i couldn’t found the exact solution for my problem.

I Tried this but its not working

 NSString *testString = @"This will go to <a href = \"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>";
[webview loadHTMLString:testString baseURL:baseURL]; 
[lblLinksTitle setText:testString];

I want Google as clickable text which have to open in safari browser. May be its simple. As i am new to iOS i couldn’t figure out to do this.

Thanks for your help guys.

Much appreciated.

Answer 1

Just use UIWebView, don’t use UiTextView

 NSString *testString = @"This will go to <a href = \"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>";
 [webview loadHTMLString:testString baseURL:nil];
 webview.delegate=self;



- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request  navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType{



NSString * requestString=[[request URL] absoluteString];
//NSLog(@"%@ is requestString from clicking",requestString );

if ([[[request URL] absoluteString] hasPrefix:@"http://www.google"]) {


[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[request URL]];


}
    return TRUE;

}