Disabling visible links in UIWebView

Question

I have a number of web views in my app in which I need to be careful about allowing further HTML links.

I disallow links in the delegate method shouldStartLoadWithRequ

Answer 1

Try injecting Javascript into the UIWebView to change the appearance of the links.

Removing the href from all anchors should clear the formatting.

Here's some Javascript to get you started if you need it:

for(a in document.getElementsByTagName("a")) { a.href= ""; }

Answer 2

This will do it:

self.webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone;

Answer 3

For swift 3:

Try removing the types you don't want to show as link from webView.dataDetectorTypes

webView.dataDetectorTypes.remove(UIDataDetectorTypes.all)