How to dismiss keyboard on a UIWebView?

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I am loading an HTML page that has a form. I would like to be able to dismiss the keyboard when the user clicks on GO or if he clicks on the SUBMIT button on the HTML page.

If the user decides he doesn't want to fill out the form, I also need a way to dismiss the keyboard.

Not sure how to do this.

score 34 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '10 at 15:13

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A more concise way without needing to know what element is selected is the following:

[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.activeElement.blur()"];

answered Jul 13 '10 at 15:13

Sam Soffes

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when/where are you calling this from? – zonabi Jun 25 '15 at 16:00

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 20:47

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The javascript approach is clever, but this is more direct:

[webView endEditing:YES];

answered Jun 13 '12 at 20:47

Christopher Pickslay

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Note that this won't work if you're presenting a modal view on iPad with presentation style `UIModalPresentationFormSheet`. It is intended iOS behaviour - see: https://devforums.apple.com/message/166801#166801 . – matm Jul 26 '12 at 20:27

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '10 at 20:05

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You can use javascript to take the focus away from the HTML text field using blur:

document.foo.bar.myinput.blur();

answered Apr 02 '10 at 20:05

dstnbrkr

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also, check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/866419/iphone-keyboard-in-uiwebview-does-not-go-away – dstnbrkr Apr 02 '10 at 20:07

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 29 '18 at 10:26

UIGestureRecogniser will help to dismiss the keyboard when user clicks on the WebView. Here is the piece of code i used.

let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(self.handleTap(_:)))
        tap.delegate = self 
        webView.addGestureRecognizer(tap)

@objc func handleTap(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) { webView?.endEditing(true) }

func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWith otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
  return true
}

Hope the helps.

score -11 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 20 '12 at 13:14

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I'm not so familiar with UIWebView, but normally you would dismiss your keyboard like so...

[textField resignFirstResponder];

By doing that, the keyboard would be dismissed...

To have the keyboard be dismissed when say the user clicks the return button, you would need to implement the delegate method.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{   
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

Apple's documentation has a full list of methods for the UITextFieldDelegate.

edited Jan 20 '12 at 13:14

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answered Apr 02 '10 at 02:37

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Unfortunately UIWebView doesn't have any delegate methods like UITextField. Any other thoughts? – Sheehan Alam Apr 02 '10 at 03:50
Perhaps your question is answered here... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389825/dismiss-iphone-keyboard – avizzini Apr 02 '10 at 04:09
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This approach simply does not work for UIWebView. See my answer above for a solution. – Sam Soffes Jul 13 '10 at 15:14

How to dismiss keyboard on a UIWebView?

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