Remove UIWebView Shadow?

Question

Does anyone know if its possible to remove the shadow that is placed on the UIWebView window?

Example: http://uploadingit.com/files/1173105_olub5/shadow.png

Answer 1

I may be wrong, but I think the shadow only shows up when we scroll the webview doesn't it ? In that case, do you want to prevent the scrolling or really hide the shadow ? I don't know any tips that would hide the shadow. To disable the scrolling, I would setUserInteractionEnabled to NO.

Answer 2

I added a recursive method as a category to the UIView object so that it will do a depth-first walk of the subviews of the method's receiving view, hiding any UIImageView subclasses it finds. It will not crash if there are no subviews. The -apply: method is from BlocksKit. You could rewrite this function not to use it, but the block is applied in parallel to each element of the receiving array, so it's pretty fast.

@implementation UIView (RemoveShadow)

- (void)removeShadow {
  if (self.subviews.count == 0 && [self isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]) {
    self.hidden = YES;
  } else if (self.subviews.count > 0) {
    [self.subviews apply:^(id sender) {
      [(UIView *)sender removeShadow];
    }];
  }
}

@end

Answer 3

You have to be careful, the scroll indicators are UIImageViews as well. I'll improve my code, but here's a basic subclassed solution:

http://forrst.com/posts/A_tiny_UIWebView_hack_remove_shadows_from_behi-gzH