Remove form assistant from keyboard in iPhone standalone web app

Question

Is it possible to remove the form assistant from the iPhone popup keyboard in a standalone web app? I know the general consensus is that it\'s not possible in Mobile Safari,

Answer 1

You can do a category of UIView and "override" the behaviour of addSubview: like the example below. Call the method "exachangeMethods" from your applicationDidFinishLaunching of your AppDelegate.

#import "UIView+util.h"
#import 

@implementation UIView (util)

// Swaps our custom implementation with the default one
// +load is called when a class is loaded into the system
+ (void) exchangeMethods
{
    SEL origSel = @selector(addSubview:);

    SEL newSel = @selector(customAddSubview:);

    Class viewClass = [UIView class];

    Method origMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(viewClass, origSel);
    Method newMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(viewClass, newSel);
    method_exchangeImplementations(origMethod, newMethod);
}
- (void) customAddSubview:(UIView *)view{

    if( [[view description]rangeOfString:@"