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

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self

                                         selector:@selector(keyboardWasShown:)

                                             name:UIKeyboardDidShowNotification object:nil];
-(void)keyboardWasShown:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
UIWindow* tempWindow;

    //Because we cant get access to the UIKeyboard throught the SDK we will just use UIView.
    //UIKeyboard is a subclass of UIView anyways
    UIView* keyboard;

    //Check each window in our application
    for(int c = 0; c < [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] count]; c ++)
    {
            //Get a reference of the current window
            tempWindow = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] objectAtIndex:c];

            //Get a reference of the current view
            for(int i = 0; i < [tempWindow.subviews count]; i++)
            {
                    keyboard = [tempWindow.subviews objectAtIndex:i];

                    if([[keyboard description] hasPrefix:@"<UIPeripheralHostView"] == YES)
                    {      
            keyboard.hidden = YES;
            UIView* keyboardLayer;
            for(int n = 0; n < [keyboard.subviews count]; n++)
            {
                keyboardLayer = [keyboard.subviews objectAtIndex:n];
                NSLog(@" keyboardLayer ::: %@ " ,keyboardLayer);
                if([[keyboardLayer description] hasPrefix:@"<UIWebFormAccessory"] == YES)
                {
                    [keyboardLayer removeFromSuperview ];
                }
            }
            keyboard.hidden = NO;

                    }
            }
    }

 NSLog(@"keyboardWasShown" );

}

check this as well: http://pastebin.com/s3Fkxvsk

Answer 2

Not easily. You could try to go poking around the subviews in the web view but it would be taboo with Apple.

How about not putting the text field in the web page on the web side, and adding your textfield/textview to the webview explicitly so it doesn't show the nav bar at all, and you can add your own from scratch?

Answer 3

this code definetly works for me... hope this also works for you.

- (void)viewDidLoad{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
}


-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification {
    [self performSelector:@selector(removeBar) withObject:nil afterDelay:0];
}

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

    // Locate UIWebFormView
    for (UIView *possibleFormView in [keyboardWindow subviews]) {
        if ([[possibleFormView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIPeripheralHostView"]) {
            for (UIView* peripheralView in [possibleFormView subviews]) {

                // hides the backdrop (iOS 7)
                if ([[peripheralView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIKBInputBackdropView"]) {
                    //skip the keyboard background....hide only the toolbar background
                    if ([peripheralView frame].origin.y == 0){
                        [[peripheralView layer] setOpacity:0.0];
                    }
                }
                // hides the accessory bar
                if ([[peripheralView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIWebFormAccessory"]) {
                    // remove the extra scroll space for the form accessory bar
                    UIScrollView *webScroll;
                    if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 5.0) {
                        webScroll = [[self webviewpot] scrollView];
                    } else {
                        webScroll = [[[self webviewpot] subviews] lastObject];
                    }
                    CGRect newFrame = webScroll.frame;
                    newFrame.size.height += peripheralView.frame.size.height;
                    webScroll.frame = newFrame;

                    // remove the form accessory bar
                    [peripheralView removeFromSuperview];
                }
                // hides the thin grey line used to adorn the bar (iOS 6)
                if ([[peripheralView description] hasPrefix:@"<UIImageView"]) {
                    [[peripheralView layer] setOpacity:0.0];
                }
            }
        }
    }
}