How to determine the content size of a UIWebView?

Question

I have a UIWebView with different (single page) content. I\'d like to find out the CGSize of the content to resize my parent views appropriately. T

Answer 1

I'm using a UIWebView that isn't a subview (and thus isn't part of the window hierarchy) to determine the sizes of HTML content for UITableViewCells. I found that the disconnected UIWebView doesn't report its size properly with -[UIWebView sizeThatFits:]. Additionally, as mentioned in https://stackoverflow.com/a/3937599/9636, you must set the UIWebView's frame height to 1 in order to get the proper height at all.

If the UIWebView's height is too big (i.e. you have it set to 1000, but the HTML content size is only 500):

UIWebView.scrollView.contentSize.height
-[UIWebView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.height"]
-[UIWebView sizeThatFits:]

All return a height of 1000.

To solve my problem in this case, I used https://stackoverflow.com/a/11770883/9636, which I dutifully voted up. However, I only use this solution when my UIWebView.frame.width is the same as the -[UIWebView sizeThatFits:] width.