Disabling user selection in UIWebView
Here are a few ways to disable selection:
Add the following to your mobile web documents
<style type="text/css">
* {
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Disable selection/copy in UIWebView */
}
</style>
Programmatically load the following Javascript code:
NSString * jsCallBack = @"window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();";
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:jsCallBack];
Disable the Copy / Paste user menu:
- (BOOL)canPerformAction:(SEL)action withSender:(id)sender
{
if (action == @selector(copy:) ||
action == @selector(paste:)||
action == @selector(cut:))
{
return _copyCutAndPasteEnabled;
}
return [super canPerformAction:action withSender:sender];
}
I can confirm that the following code works in iOS 5.0 - 8.0.
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
// Disable user selection
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.documentElement.style.webkitUserSelect='none';"];
// Disable callout
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.documentElement.style.webkitTouchCallout='none';"];
}
Also works for iOS 9 and later. Here's the swift code:
func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView: UIWebView) {
// Disable user selection
webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString("document.documentElement.style.webkitUserSelect='none'")!
// Disable callout
webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString("document.documentElement.style.webkitTouchCallout='none'")!
}