Opening popup links in UIWebView, possible?

Question

I have a UIWebView which I\'m using as an embedded browser within my app.

I\'ve noticed that links in webpages that open new windows are ignored without any call int

Answer 1

So after a small amount of research, it's clear that the UIWebView class purposefully ignores links that will open in a new window (either by using the 'target' element on the a tag or using javascript in the onClick event).

The only solutions I have found are to manipulate the html of a page using javascript. While this works for some cases, it's not bulletproof. Here are some examples:

links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i=0; i

This will change all links that use the 'target' element to point at _self - instead of _blank or _new. This will probably work across the board and not present any problems.

The other snippet I found followed the same idea, but with the onClick event:

links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i=0; i

This one is just plain nasty. It'll only work if the link tag has it's href element correctly set, and only if the onclick event is used to open the new window (using window.open() or something similar). The reasons why it is nasty shouldn't need explaining, but one example would be if the onClick is used for anything other than opening a window - which is a very common case.

I guess one could go further with this and start doing some string matching with the onClick method, and check for window.open(), but again, this is really far from ideal.