[TIMOB-1458] WebView doesn't keep html

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Medium
Status	Closed
Resolution	Duplicate
Resolution Date	2012-06-22T16:24:23.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	iOS
Labels	n/a
Reporter	wolef
Assignee	Neeraj Gupta
Created	2011-04-15T02:53:24.000+0000
Updated	2017-03-09T21:29:42.000+0000

Description

If I add a local string to the html-attribute and try to get the string back, I'll only get an empty html tag.

var html = '<html><body>Text</body></html>';
var view = Titanium.UI.createWebView();
view.html = html;
alert(view.html);

Comments

Dawson Toth 2011-06-01

That code sample still will not work, but for a good reason. Setting the html is an async process, so it returns quickly. In the background, the web view is loading up your HTML and rendering it. When you inspect the html property right away, it will be whatever the web view had in it before you set the html property. In this case, it will be something like "". If you listen for the "load" event, you'll see your HTML returned. I expanded your example to show how to properly handle this:

   
   var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({ backgroundColor: '#fff' });
   var html = '<html><head></head><body>Text</body></html>';
   var web = Ti.UI.createWebView({
       html: html,
       width: '90%', height: '90%', top: '5%', left: '5%'
   });
   win.add(web);
   win.open();
   web.addEventListener('load', function() {
       if (web.html != html) {
           win.backgroundColor = '#f00';
           alert('FAIL: web.html != original html');
       }
       else {
           win.backgroundColor = '#0f0';
           alert('PASS: I love you forever!');
       }
       Ti.API.info(web.html);
   });

Vishal Duggal 2012-06-22

Dup of TIMOB-8293
Lee Morris 2017-03-09

Closing ticket as duplicate.

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