On WebView long click highlight the selected text in Android

Question

I have loaded a local HTML file from assets folder into WebView.Also On WebView long click its open a custom dialog box. This is my code:

 pageView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onLongClick(View view) {
            String names[] ={"Copy","Bookmark","Note"};
            final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
            LayoutInflater inflater = getActivity().getLayoutInflater();
            View convertView = (View) inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_dialog, null);
            alertDialog.setView(convertView);
            ListView lv = (ListView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.listView1);
            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getActivity(),android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,names);
            lv.setAdapter(adapter);
            final AlertDialog ad=alertDialog.show();
            return false;
        }
    });

Now I want to add bookmark functionality on selected text. How is it possible?

you can check this maybe http://stackoverflow.com/a/37645059/6689101 — zombie, Dec 14 '16 at 13:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 13:13

I haven't tried it at all But you can try below solution.

For that you have to add custom css style in your html file as below :

* {
    -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);  
}

here it will disable highlight color of selected text. Try it out and let me know Is it working or not?

On WebView long click highlight the selected text in Android

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