anchors in a UIWebView

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anchors in a UIWebView

I am displaying an HTML document including many pages using a UIWebView.
How can I select from the code which page to display, given that each page has an anchor associated with it?

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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 4, 2008 7:46 AM

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Answer 1

rab101 Author

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Nov 5, 2008 11:16 AM in response to rab101

For more details, if we are loading from a url, it would be as follows:
url = http://server/page.html#anchor1

This would open page.html starting at section tagged anchor1.

The question I still have is how to do this if page.html is a local file.

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Answer 2

RickMaddy

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Nov 5, 2008 4:14 PM in response to rab101

Let's say you have 'page.html' in your resources directory and it contains the anchor 'anchor1' you can do this:


NSString *basePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"page.html" ofType:nil];
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:basePath];
NSURL *fullURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"#anchor1" relativeToURL:baseURL];
// Now do whatever with this fullURL

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Answer 3

rab101 Author

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Nov 6, 2008 12:10 PM in response to RickMaddy

I did it by taking the path, encoding it and appending the anchor tag - a long way.

But I like the RickMaddy solution, it is shorter and it works.

Thanks RickMaddy for the suggestion.

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