UIWebView unable to select text

Question

User unable to select text in some documents loaded into web-view, so "copy, define..." actions doesn't show up.
What can be a reason to this behaviour?

Edit: For some documents, this same web-view normally select text, so I think the problem is with html-document.

I want to enable selection, not disable it, it is not duplicate. — Alexander, Jun 22 '13 at 14:42
Same issue on my side. And how can this still be marked as duplicate by 5 different persons when the 2 questions are completely different...? — Aurelien Porte, Feb 24 '16 at 14:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:32

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try check the "User Interaction Enabled" for UIWebView on IB or

[webview setUserInteractionEnabled: YES];

answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:32

stosha

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It is enabled, please, check my edit. – Alexander Jun 22 '13 at 14:41
try override the hitTest:withEvent: method as you can see in post http://iphone2020.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/how-to-pass-touch-events-to-uiwebview/ – stosha Jun 22 '13 at 14:56
can you load html-docement with problem to desktop browser for testing? May be it don't work too. – stosha Jun 22 '13 at 15:20
I've tried, everething fine. – Alexander Jun 22 '13 at 15:26

UIWebView unable to select text

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