WebView jump to anchor using loadDataWithBaseUrl

Question

My Android app uses a WebView to display a bunch of HTML code that I generate \'on the fly\'. The HTML code is loaded using the following code:

Answer 1

If you have in your layout the webview inside a nestedScrollView the nesting will prevent the scrolling events from working properly. Once you take it out it will work without any need to reload or add javascript.

Additionally if you want to keep the nestedScrollView and dont care if the user cannot scroll past that section you can add fillViewPort=true to the nestedScrollView and android:layout_height="wrap_content" to the webview.

It would look something like:

  
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