webview showing white bar on right side

Question

I am giving the following method call to my webview client embedded in my layout
wv.loadData(\"

Answer 1

My app has a selectable night-mode which switches to white on black. The central View is a WebView displaying text.

For night-mode I used an extra css file that showed white text on a black backbround but users complained about the white scrollbar on the right. So I had much the same problem as outlined above. However, I needed to switch in and out of night-mode programatically at runtime but I didn't want merely to hide the scrollbars.

The simple solution I used was:

if (isNightMode()) {
    webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
} else {
    webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
}

Setting the backgroundColor of the WebView affected the scrollbars as required.