How to clear back forward list in UIWebview on iPhone?

Question

I want to access/clear the back forward list as if the UIWebView is new again. Is there any public API or workaround to do this?

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Answer 1

I've tried almost every solution posted without much success. My case is for Childbrowser phonegap plugin, but is based in the same problem, a single webview instance used to show external pages in my application. When I show an external page, the webview maintains the history of previous pages shown. I wanted to remove the history when I show a new external webpage.

After some research, I've found a solution in this SO post that worked for me.

[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.innerHTML = \"\";"];

In the case of childbrowser, I placed it in the method -(IBAction) onDoneButtonPress:(id)sender, which previously inserted a blank page to start blank (but with back button enabled).

HTH! Milton.