ios8 iPad uiwebview crashes while displaying popover when user taps drop down list HTML select tag

Question

On ios8 and iPad if a uiwebview is displaying a HTML page containing a drop down list

eg this page http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryh

Answer 1

The previous solutions did not help me.

There is a bug already logged to Apple (see openradar) for this.

The issue seems to be that the web view tries to present a view controller in a popover without setting the sourceView of the popover. Although it's definitely an Apple issue I have used the following workaround to avoid my app to crash:

- (void)presentViewController:(UIViewController *)viewControllerToPresent animated:(BOOL)flag completion:(void (^)(void))completion
{
    // Override this method in the view controller that owns the web view - the web view will try to present on this view controller ;)

    if (viewControllerToPresent.popoverPresentationController && !viewControllerToPresent.popoverPresentationController.sourceView) {
        return;
    }

    [super presentViewController:viewControllerToPresent animated:flag completion:completion];
}