How to disable long click on WebView in android

Question

I want to disable the long click on webView so I cant select the text in it, and I use three ways to do that but nothing work:

1) android:longClickable="false"

2) webView.setLongClickable(false);

3) webView.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
                return true;
            }
        });

So any help please.

sharshi · Answer 1 · 2014-01-08T21:51:28.787

To disable long clicks you need to first enable long click setLongClickable(true); then the setOnLongClickListener, and return nothing:

webview.setLongClickable(true);
webview.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
        return true;
        }
    });

If you only need to disable text selection it's better to add the following CSS to your webpage and it will disable text selection:

body {
    -webkit-touch-callout: none;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -khtml-user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
}

Check the Mozilla documentation here.

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

2

This worked for me, as shown at https://stackoverflow.com/a/12793740/5035343

mWebView.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
    return true;
}
});
mWebView.setLongClickable(false);

And to remove the viberation caused by the long click, you can try this.

mWebView.setHapticFeedbackEnabled(false);

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

Community

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answered Apr 05 '16 at 15:25

Esther

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 12:42

Try this:

   public void SelectText(View v) {
        try {
            KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0, 0, KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
                    KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ESCAPE, 0, 0);
            shiftPressEvent.dispatch(v);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new AssertionError(e);
        }
    }

or :

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent "ACTION_DOWN") {
    try {
        KeyEvent shiftPressEvent = new KeyEvent(0, 0, KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN,
                KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT,0,0);
        shiftPressEvent.dispatch(webview);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new AssertionError(e);
    }
    return false;
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 13:23

0

Try this:

webView.setOnLongClickListener(null);

answered Apr 02 '13 at 13:23

vinoth

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 21 '17 at 21:22

This method is useful for me, Check it may be help you guys.

1) Just use this webView.setLongClickable(false);

2) use in html with css:

body {
    -webkit-touch-callout: none;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -khtml-user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
}

3) replace body tag with this in html <body oncontextmenu="return false;">

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 18 '22 at 17:11

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use this for kotlin

binding.webViewId.setOnLongClickListener(OnLongClickListener { true })

or

webViewId.setOnLongClickListener(OnLongClickListener { true })

edited Jan 18 '22 at 17:11

Codemaker2015

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answered Jan 18 '22 at 13:53

Rakesh kumar

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 26 '23 at 09:49

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This so far working with me

webView.setOnLongClickListener { _ -> true }

answered Jan 26 '23 at 09:49

Maher Abuthraa

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