UIWebView Keyboard - Getting rid of the “Previous/Next/Done” bar

Question

I want to get rid of the bar on top of the keyboard that appears when you focus a text field in a webview. We have some other ways of handling this and it\'s redundant and

Answer 1

This is an addition to Yun's answer. On iOS6 (6.0.1) there might be a horizontal grey border or shadow line on top of the row where the accessory (previous / next / done) used to be before it was removed. This fix works for me, and I'd like to share. Curious to hear if it works for you as well.

To remove the border, I added this code to the inner loop of removeBar():

if ([[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIImageView"].location != NSNotFound) {
    [[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView layer] setOpacity: 0.0];
}

We need to add the QuartzCore framework to the head of the .m file, so we can set the opacity of the layer involved.

So, we get:

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#import 

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- (void)removeBar {
    UIWindow *keyboardWindow = nil;
    for (UIWindow *testWindow in [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows]) {
        if (![[testWindow class] isEqual:[UIWindow class]]) {
            keyboardWindow = testWindow;
            break;
        }
    }

    for (UIView *possibleFormView in [keyboardWindow subviews]) {
        // iOS 5 sticks the UIWebFormView inside a UIPeripheralHostView.
        if ([[possibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIPeripheralHostView"].location != NSNotFound) {
            for (UIView *subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView in [possibleFormView subviews]) {
                if ([[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIWebFormAccessory"].location != NSNotFound) {
                    [subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView removeFromSuperview];
                }
                // iOS 6 leaves a grey border / shadow above the hidden accessory row
                if ([[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView description] rangeOfString:@"UIImageView"].location != NSNotFound) {
                    // we need to add the QuartzCore framework for the next line
                    [[subviewWhichIsPossibleFormView layer] setOpacity: 0.0];
                }
            }
        }
    }
}