Android Question webview(show text) - copy and paste

[kisoft]

Hello. I use webview to show text. When the user scrolls the text sometimes the copy fields appear, paste. How to block this behavior?

 

[Brandsum]

1. If you are using loadhtml to show text then you can prevent text selection via some CSS.
2. If you are showing a webpage and you have access to that page content then you can prevent text selection via CSS or javascript.
3. If you are showing a webpage and you don't have access to that page content then you can use WebViewExtra to execute javascript to prevent text selection.

If you don't know how to do that in css or javascript then tell me which one you need I'll post sample css or javascript code.

 

[kisoft]

HI
I display text files

Dim xui As XUI
WebView1.LoadUrl(xui.FileUri(File.DirAssets, "elem2.html"))

 

[Brandsum]

Then just add this css inside head tag of that html file.

<style>
* {
   -webkit-user-select: none;
}
</style>

Though this following code sample will work for all the cases (local and remote webpage).

Private wve As WebViewExtras
wve.Initialize(webview1)
wve.JavaScriptEnabled = True
wve.LoadUrl(xui.FileUri(File.DirAssets, "elem2.html"))

Sub webview1_PageFinished (Url As String)
    wve.ExecuteJavascript("document.querySelector('*').style.webkitUserSelect = 'none';")
End Sub

 

[kisoft]

Ok, thank you so much for this example. It will be a bit problematic for me, I use over 1000 html files in the project

 

[Brandsum]

Then just use the webviewextra example. In that case, you don't have to edit any of those html files.

 

[kisoft]

Then just use the webviewextra example. In that case, you don't have to edit any of those html files.

@Brandsum. Thank you so much for your help, it works as expected.