I am creating an app that is having a UIWebView which contains an advert. The size of the view is the same as the advert (image) itself. Still, there is a white margin/padding of some kind above and to the left of the image, inside the UIWebView. Check out the linked image:
Actually, the image is pushed down and to the right due to this padding also.
Any idea how I should remove the white padding?
Thanks in advance!
Basically, all browsers add in that whitespace around the edges of the page to be backwards-compatible with like Netscape 1. In the HTML you're loading into the web view, you can use CSS to remove that:
body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
If you're not loading HTML into your web view, but just the direct URL for an image file, I suggest either a) wrapping that in some basic HTML (head, body, an img
tag), or b) downloading the image yourself (say with NSURLConnection
), and displaying it directly in a UIImageView
.
I know this is an old post, but just in case anyone is having the same issues. I was able to fix the same issue by adding the following code into the webViewDidFinishLoad delegate method.
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
NSString *padding = @"document.body.style.margin='0';document.body.style.padding = '0'";
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:padding];
}
Look at the first banner with the above code added. And the bottom one without the code.
As an ammendment to @thenextmillionair's brilliant answer, put the code in:
- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
NSString *padding = @"document.body.style.margin='0';document.body.style.padding = '0'";
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:padding];
}
as opposed to webViewDidFinishLoad
. When the code is in webViewDidFinishLoad
, you see the UIWebView
reposition itself after appearing on screen with the padding. By putting it in webViewDidStartLoad
, you eliminate this ugliness.