Why is Android WebView refusing user input?

Question

I\'m developing an Android application that uses a WebView to display the login page for Facebook. The page loads beautifully, and I\'m able to select the username/password

Answer 1

I'm sorry to say that none of this worked for me. I guess this depends on your context. In my case, the problem occurred within a html pop up (absolute div). All the other input field were doing ok.

Breaking down the problem I found out it's a bug in the webview. Fixed positioned divs containing other fixed/absolute position divs break input fields in the page. Hence a rule I worded for you (don't hesitate to reformulate):

If in your page you've got a fixed positioned div with none-default positioned nested divs (i.e. absolute, fixed, etc.), any of the following absolute positioned div in your page containing input fields will get the unexpected behaviour.

So, put your input fields at the top of the page (if you can) or avoid absolute divs nested in other fixed/absolute divs. That should help.

I posted something about it on my blog if you need more explanations and potential workarounds: http://java-cerise.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-web-view-inputfields-refuse-to.html