UIWebView - can't get keyboard to appear

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UIWebView - can't get keyboard to appear

I have a UIWebView in a modal view with the express purpose of completing a short web form. However, when I tap in an input box on the web page, the keyboard doesn't appear. The view repositions as if the keyboard is there, but it's not....

I have even tried totally replacing my web view code with that from the sample Apple UICatalog app - but the same thing happens.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour ?

I"m wondering if it's because my navigation stack is a little bit complex at that point: navigation controller -> modal base view controller -> pushed view controller -> modal web view controller ? I wonder if the keyboard is being shown 'behind' the current view or something strange ?

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Jul 25, 2008 6:37 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 28, 2008 1:26 AM in response to Andrew Rennard

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Answer 2

Jul 28, 2008 8:38 AM in response to Andrew Rennard

I just encountered this. For me, the keyboard is apparently sitting behind my web view. I happened to rotate the device (in the simulator) and noticed, during the screen rotation drawing process, that I could see parts of the keyboard behind my webview.

I do not yet know a good solution.

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Answer 3

Jul 28, 2008 9:35 AM in response to JjBigThoughts

Ah, yes I see the same thing when I rotate the view.

I haven't found the cause of this yet - I've created a test project and used the same classes in that and the keyboard appears fine, even when the view is presented modally...

Is your web view in a modal view controller ?

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Answer 4

Jul 28, 2008 12:08 PM in response to Andrew Rennard

I don't know if I was in modal view. I had been modifying the UI Catalog sample and had been moving code around and changing urls. Since I first posted, I started over with a simpler structure, which solved the problem for me. I think I had been inappropriately setting up the webview in more than one location which caused confusion in my logic.

Good luck.

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Answer 5

Jul 29, 2008 4:16 AM in response to Andrew Rennard

I can confirm that by setting the view opacity I can see the keyboard appear BEHIND the web view.

I've tried everything I can think of, and there's no way I can find to control the appearance of the keyboard. Really frustrating, as my only option is to send the used into Safari instead.

Interestingly, I can't seem to reproduce this problem in a freshly created sample application - yet I can't see what the problem can be with my view hierarchy.

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