# Titanium.UI.WebView

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityElementsHidden property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol.

On Android, setting accessibilityHidden calls the native View.setImportantForAccessibility method. The native method is only available in Android 4.1 (API level 16/Jelly Bean) and later; if this property is specified on earlier versions of Android, it is ignored.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityHint property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with accessibilityLabel and accessibilityValue in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityLabel property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with accessibilityValue and accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method. Defaults to Title or label of the control.

On iOS this is a direct analog of the accessibilityValue property defined in the UIAccessibility Protocol. On Android, it is concatenated together with accessibilityLabel and accessibilityHint in the order: accessibilityLabel, accessibilityValue, accessibilityHint. The concatenated value is then passed as the argument to the native View.setContentDescription method. Defaults to State or value of the control.

See the example section "Usage of allowedURLSchemes and handleurl in iOS".

Set to true to enable access to local files for examples images stored in applicationDataDirectory. If false resources are still accessible using file:///android_asset and file:///android_res. Do not enable this if your app accepts arbitrary URLs from external sources.

This property is available on devices that support 3D Touch. Default value is false.

If you set this value to true for a web view, users (with devices that support 3D Touch) can preview link destinations, and can preview detected data such as addresses, by pressing on links. Such previews are known to users as peeks. If a user presses deeper, the preview navigates (or pops, in user terminology) to the destination. Because pop navigation switches the user from your app to Safari, it is opt-in, by way of this property, rather default behavior for this class.

Used on iOS only. For Android, use anchorPoint.

Anchor point is specified as a fraction of the view's size. For example, {0, 0} is at the view's top-left corner, {0.5, 0.5} at its center and {1, 1} at its bottom-right corner.

See the "Using an anchorPoint" example in Titanium.UI.Animation for a demonstration. The default is center of this view.

The value of this property is the fully qualified name of the API. For example, Titanium.UI.Button returns Ti.UI.Button.

Use this property to change the resources the web view has access to when loading the content of a local file. By default the web view only has access to files inside the same directory as the loaded file. To reference resources from other directories (e.g. a parent directory) change this property accordingly.

If assetsDirectory references a single file, only that file may be loaded. If assetsDirectory references a directory, files inside that directory may be loaded.

This property needs to be set before url is assigned to a local file.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI. Defaults to Transparent.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI. Defaults to the normal background color of this view.

If backgroundDisabledImage is undefined, and the normal background imagebackgroundImage is set, the normal image is used when this view is disabled.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

For normal views, the focused color is only used if focusable is true. Defaults to the normal background color of this view.

For normal views, the focused background is only used if focusable is true. If backgroundFocusedImage is undefined, and the normal background image backgroundImage is set, the normal image is used when this view is focused.

A gradient can be defined as either linear or radial. A linear gradient varies continuously along a line between the startPoint and endPoint.

A radial gradient is interpolated between two circles, defined by startPoint and startRadius and endPoint and endRadius respectively.

The start points, end points and radius values can be defined in device units, in the view's coordinates, or as percentages of the view's size. Thus, if a view is 60 x 60, the center point of the view can be specified as:

{ x: 30, y: 30 }

Or:

{ x: '50%', y: '50%' }

When specifying multiple colors, you can specify an offset value for each color, defining how far into the gradient it takes effect. For example, the following color array specifies a gradient that goes from red to blue back to red:

colors: [ { color: 'red', offset: 0.0}, { color: 'blue', offset: 0.25 }, { color: 'red', offset: 1.0 } ]

Android's linear gradients ignores backfillStart and backfillEnd, treating them as if they are true. Android's radial gradients ignore the endPoint property. Defaults to no gradient.

Default behavior when backgroundImage is unspecified depends on the type of view and the platform. For generic views, no image is used. For most controls (buttons, textfields, and so on), platform-specific default images are used.

See the section on backgroundLeftCap and backgroundTopCap behavior on iOS in Titanium.UI.View.

Setting this to true makes the set backgroundImage repeat across the view as a series of tiles. The tiling begins in the upper-left corner, where the upper-left corner of the background image is rendered. The image is then tiled to fill the available space of the view.

Note that setting this to true may incur performance penalties for large views or background images, as the tiling must be redone whenever a view is resized.

On iOS, the following views do not currently support tiled backgrounds:

• Titanium.UI.Button
• Titanium.UI.TextField
• Titanium.UI.Label

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

focusable must be true for normal views.

Defaults to background color of this view.

For normal views, the selected background is only used if focusable is true.

If backgroundSelectedImage is undefined, and the normal background image backgroundImage is set the normal image is used when this view is selected.

See the section on backgroundLeftCap and backgroundTopCap behavior on iOS in Titanium.UI.View.

An array of url strings to blacklist. This will stop the webview from going to urls listed in the blacklist. Note, this only applies in the links clicked inside the webview. The first website that is loaded will not be stopped even if it matches the blacklist.

An array of url strings to be blocked from loading. This will stop the webview from going to urls listed in this array. Note that this only applies to the links tapped on by the end-user. The first website that is loaded will not be stopped, even if it is listed in the blocklist.

For information about color values, see the "Colors" section of Titanium.UI.

Defaults to the normal background color of this view (Android), black (iOS).

Each corner is rounded using an arc of a circle. Values for each corner can be specified. For example, '20px 20px' will set both left and right corners to 20px. Specifying '20px 20px 20px 20px' will set top-left, top-right, bottom-right and bottom-left corners in that order.

If you have issues with dark artifacts on Android you can try to disable Hardware acceleration by setting a backgroundColor with a small amount of transparency: backgroundColor:"rgba(255,255,255,254)".

If borderColor is set without borderWidth, this value will be changed to 1 of the unit declared as 'ti.ui.defaultunit' in tiapp.xml descriptor.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

Some proxies (most commonly views) have a relationship to other proxies, often established by the add() method. For example, for a button added to a window, a click event on the button would bubble up to the window. Other common parents are table sections to their rows, table views to their sections, and scrollable views to their views. Set this property to false to disable the bubbling to the proxy's parent.

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

Setting this to CLIP_MODE_ENABLED enforces all child views to be clipped to this views bounds. Setting this to CLIP_MODE_DISABLED allows child views to be drawn outside the bounds of this view. When set to CLIP_MODE_DEFAULT or when this property is not set, clipping behavior is inferred. See section on iOS Clipping Behavior in Titanium.UI.View.

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to CLIP_MODE_DEFAULT.

This property can only be set when creating the webview and will be ignored when set afterwards.

Android only supports loading data from a Blob, not a File.

See also: url and html.

Set to true to disable the bounce effect.

Set to true to disable the context menu. Note that disabling the context menu will also disable the text selection on iOS.

The elevation of a view determines the appearance of its shadow. Higher elevations produce larger and softer shadows.

Note: The elevation property only works on Titanium.UI.View objects. Many Android components have a default elevation that cannot be modified. For more information, see Google design guidelines: Elevation and shadows.

This property is introduced to prevent a security issue with older devices (< JELLY_BEAN_MR1)

This is a security feature to protect an app from "tapjacking", where a malicious app can use a system overlay to intercept touch events in your app or to trick the end-user to tap on UI in your app intended for the overlay.

Setting this property to true causes touch related events (including "click") to not be fired if a system overlay overlaps the view.

By default any urls that are not handled by the Titanium platform but can be handled by the shared application are automatically sent to the shared application and the webview does not open these. When this property is set to true the webview will attempt to handle these urls and they will not be sent to the shared application. An example is links to telephone numbers.

Defaults to: If undefined, defaults to either FILL or SIZE depending on the view. See "View Types and Default Layout Behavior" in Transitioning to the New UI Layout System.

Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '40dp'). Can also be one of the following special values:

• SIZE. The view should size itself to fit its contents.
• FILL. The view should size itself to fill its parent.
• 'auto'. Represents the default sizing behavior for a given type of view. The use of 'auto' is deprecated, and should be replaced with the SIZE or FILL constants if it is necessary to set the view's behavior explicitly.

This is an input property for specifying the view's height dimension. To determine the view's size once rendered, use the rect or size properties.

If setting hiddenBehavior to HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE it will automatically release the space the view occupied. For example: in a vertical layout the views below the object will move up when you hide an object with hiddenBehavior:Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE.

• HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_INVISIBLE. Keeps the space and just hides the object (default).
• HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_GONE. Releases the space and hides the object.

Defaults to Titanium.UI.HIDDEN_BEHAVIOR_INVISIBLE.

Note that the parallax effect only happens by tilting the device so results can not be seen on Simulator. To clear all motion effects, use the <Titanium.UI.clearMotionEffects> method.

For more information, see the discussion of horizontal layout mode in the description of the layout property.

See setHtml for additional parameters that can be specified when setting HTML content.

The web view's content can also be set using the data or url properties.

If you want to get the HTML content of a remote URL you can grab it with this evalJS call:

webview.addEventListener('load', function() {
  webview.evalJS('document.documentElement.outerHTML.toString()', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
});

See also: data and url.

The id property of the Ti.UI.View represents the view's identifier. The identifier string does not have to be unique. You can use this property with getViewById method.

If set to true, the web page loads despite having an invalid SSL certificate. If set to false, a web page with an invalid SSL certificate does not load.

iOS Note: As soon as you set this property to true, iOS will cache the response for the lifetime of the current web view.

When true the screen will not power down. Note: enabling this feature will use more power, thereby adversely affecting run time when on battery. For iOS look at idleTimerDisabled.

When this property is set to true, the user must explicitly tap the elements in the web view to display the keyboard (or other relevant input view) for that element. When set to false, a focus event on an element causes the input view to be displayed and associated with that element automatically.

There are three layout options:

• composite (or absolute). Default layout. A child view is positioned based on its positioning properties or "pins" (top, bottom, left, right and center). If no positioning properties are specified, the child is centered.

  The child is always sized based on its width and height properties, if these are specified. If the child's height or width is not specified explicitly, it may be calculated implicitly from the positioning properties. For example, if both left and center.x are specified, they can be used to calculate the width of the child control.

  Because the size and position properties can conflict, there is a specific precedence order for the layout properties. For vertical positioning, the precedence order is: height, top, center.y, bottom.

  The following table summarizes the various combinations of properties that can be used for vertical positioning, in order from highest precedence to lowest. (For example, if height, center.y and bottom are all specified, the height and center.y values take precedence.)

  Scenario	Behavior
  height & top specified	Child positioned top unit from parent's top, using specified height; any center.y and bottom values are ignored.
  height & center.y specified	Child positioned with center at center.y, using specified height; any bottom value is ignored.
  height & bottom specified	Child positioned bottom units from parent's bottom, using specified height.
  top & center.y specified	Child positioned with top edge top units from parent's top and center at center.y. Height is determined implicitly; any bottom value is ignored.
  top & bottom specified	Child positioned with top edge top units from parent's top and bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom. Height is determined implicitly.
  Only top specified	Child positioned top units from parent's top, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  center.y and bottom specified	Child positioned with center at center.y and bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom. Height is determined implicitly.
  Only center.y specified	Child positioned with center at center.y, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  Only bottom specified	Child positioned with bottom edge bottom units from parent's bottom, and uses the default height calculation for the view type.
  height, top, center.y, and bottom unspecified	Child entered vertically in the parent and uses the default height calculation for the child view type.

  Horizontal positioning works like vertical positioning, except that the precedence is width, left, center.x, right.

  For complete details on composite layout rules, see Transitioning to the New UI Layout System in the Titanium Mobile Guides.

• vertical. Children are laid out vertically from top to bottom. The first child is laid out top units from its parent's bounding box. Each subsequent child is laid out below the previous child. The space between children is equal to the upper child's bottom value plus the lower child's top value.

  Each child is positioned horizontally as in the composite layout mode.

• horizontal. Horizontal layouts have different behavior depending on whether wrapping is enabled. Wrapping is enabled by default (the horizontalWrap property is true).

  With wrapping behavior, the children are laid out horizontally from left to right, in rows. If a child requires more horizontal space than exists in the current row, it is wrapped to a new row. The height of each row is equal to the maximum height of the children in that row.

  Wrapping behavior is available on iOS and Android. When the horizontalWrap property is set to true, the first row is placed at the top of the parent view, and successive rows are placed below the first row. Each child is positioned vertically within its row somewhat like composite layout mode. In particular:

  • If neither top or bottom is specified, the child is centered in the row.
  • If either top or bottom is specified, the child is aligned to either the top or bottom of the row, with the specified amount of padding.
  • If both top and bottom is specified for a given child, the properties are both treated as padding.

  If the horizontalWrap property is false, the behavior is more equivalent to a vertical layout. Children are laid or horizontally from left to right in a single row. The left and right properties are used as padding between the children, and the top and bottom properties are used to position the children vertically.

  Defaults to Composite layout.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

If this property is set to a Window or TabGroup, then the corresponding Activity lifecycle event callbacks will also be called on the proxy. Proxies that require the activity lifecycle will need this property set to the appropriate containing Window or TabGroup.

Setting this property solves the problem of web links with specific length not triggering a link click in Android.

This is only an Android specific property and has no effect starting from API level 18.

This flag is true by default to retain backwards compatibility with previous behavior.

On iOS this functionality can be set in the <plist> section of the tiapp.xml using the NSAllowsArbitraryLoads key as part of the App Transport Security. The plist key is enabled by default, allowing arbitrary loads to be processed.

For example, the request is triggered if a web page wants to open a URL in a new window. By default, Titanium will open a new full-size window to host the new content. Use the callback to override the default behavior.

The callback needs to create a new WebView object to host the content in and add the WebView to the application UI. The callback must return either a WebView object to host the content in or null if it does not wish to handle the request.

The callback is passed a dictionary with two boolean properties:

• isDialog: set to true if the content should be opened in a dialog window rather than a full-size window.
• isUserGesture: set to true if the user initiated the request with a gesture, such as tapping a link.

The following example opens new web content in a new tab rather than a new window:

var tabGroup = Ti.UI.createTabGroup(),
    win = Ti.UI.createWindow(),
    tab = Ti.UI.createTab({window: win, title: 'Start Page'}),
    webview = Ti.UI.createWebView({ url:'index.html'});

webview.onCreateWindow = function(e) {
    var newWin = Ti.UI.createWindow(),
        newWebView = Ti.UI.createWebView(),
        newTab = Ti.UI.createTab({window: newWin, title: 'New Page'});
    newWin.add(newWebView);
    tabGroup.addTab(newTab);
    return newWebView;
};

win.add(webview);
tabGroup.addTab(tab);
tabGroup.open();

The callback will be called before navigating to the link. The Boolean return value of the callback will determine if the link will be navigated or discarded.

If this property is set to false, the animate call is ignored if the view is currently being animated.

Defaults to undefined but behaves as false

This setting affects the loading of content that requires web plugins.

To enable hardware acceleration, add the tool-api-level and manifest elements shown below inside the android element in your tiapp.xml file.

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <tool-api-level>11</tool-api-level>
    <manifest>
        <application android:hardwareAccelerated="true"/>
    </manifest>
</android>

See Android documentation for WebSettings.PluginState.

This property only works on Android devices at API Level 8 or greater.

Preview context to present the "Peek and Pop" of a view. Use an configured instance of Titanium.UI.iOS.PreviewContext here.

Note: This property can only be used on devices running iOS9 or later and supporting 3D-Touch. It is ignored on older devices and can manually be checked using forceTouchSupported.

This value ranges from 0.0 to 1.0 based on the total number of bytes expected to be received, including the main document and all of its potential subresources. After loading completes, the progress remains at 1.0 until a new download starts, at which point progress is reset to 0.0.

The view's bounding box is defined by its size and position.

The view's size is rect.width x rect.height. The view's top-left position relative to its parent is (rect.x , rect.y).

On Android it will also return rect.absoluteX and 'rect.absoluteY' which are relative to the main window.

The correct values will only be available when layout is complete. To determine when layout is complete, add a listener for the postlayout event.

Setting this property allows you to set custom headers to the URL requests. The parameter will be key-value pairs: {"Custom-field1":"value1", "Custom-field2":"value2"}

On Android you should avoid Calling setRequestHeaders() right after createWebView(). Use the requestHeaders property inside createWebView() or put it inside the window open event.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

Defaults to undefined.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

On iOS, setting this to true sets the initial zoom level to show the entire page, and enables the user to zoom the web view in and out. Setting this to false prevents the user from zooming the web view.

On Android, only controls the initial zoom level.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

The scroll-to-top gesture is a tap on the status bar; The default value of this property is true. This gesture works when you have a single visible web view. If there are multiple table views, web views, text areas, and/or scroll views visible, you will need to disable (set to false) on the above views you DON'T want this behaviour on. The remaining view will then respond to scroll-to-top gesture.

Although property returns a Dimension dictionary, only the width and height properties are valid. The position properties--x and y--are always 0.

To find the position and size of the view, use the rect property instead.

The correct values will only be available when layout is complete. To determine when layout is complete, add a listener for the postlayout event.

This property is a direct correspondant of the tintColor property of UIView on iOS. If no value is specified, the tintColor of the View is inherited from its superview.

Assigning a value to this property causes the tool tip to be displayed for the view. Setting the property to null cancels the display of the tool tip for the view. Note: This property is only used for apps targeting macOS Catalyst.

This position is relative to the view's parent. Exact interpretation depends on the parent view's layout property. Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '10px').

This is an input property for specifying where the view should be positioned, and does not represent the view's calculated position.

If false, will forward the events to peers.

Touch feedback is only applied to a view's background. It is never applied to the view's foreground content such as a Titanium.UI.ImageView's image.

For Titanium versions older than 9.1.0, touch feedback only works if you set the backgroundColor property to a non-transparent color.

Defaults to provided theme color.

Android only supports Matrix2D transforms.

Name should be unique in the View hierarchy.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

Translation values are applied to the static post layout value.

This property changes as the content of the webview changes (such as when the user clicks a hyperlink inside the web view).

See also: data and html.

On the iOS platform, this is not per-webview. Once you have set this property for a webview it will not change for same. But while creating new webview it can be changed to new user agent.

On Android, changing the user agent after the webview has begun loading content may cause the webview to reload and fire multiple load or beforeload events. Developers should provide the user agent value in the creation properties to avoid the reload and multiple events firing.

Note that the parallax effect only happens by tilting the device so results can not be seen on Simulator. To clear all motion effects, use the <Titanium.UI.clearMotionEffects> method.

iOS Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if transparent. Android default is black. On Android you can set <item name="android:ambientShadowAlpha">0.5</item> and <item name="android:spotShadowAlpha">0.5</item> in your theme to change the opacity.

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to (0,-3)

Defaults to undefined. Behaves as if set to 3. Accepts density units as of 10.0.1.

Defaults to: If undefined, defaults to either FILL or SIZE depending on the view. See "View Types and Default Layout Behavior" in Transitioning to the New UI Layout System.

Can be either a float value or a dimension string (for example, '50%' or '40dp'). Can also be one of the following special values:

• SIZE. The view should size itself to fit its contents.
• FILL. The view should size itself to fill its parent.
• 'auto'. Represents the default sizing behavior for a given type of view. The use of 'auto' is deprecated, and should be replaced with the SIZE or FILL constants if it is necessary to set the view's behavior explicitly.

This is an input property for specifying the view's width dimension. To determine the view's size once rendered, use the rect or size properties.

On the iOS platform, if this web view or any of its parent views have touch listeners, the Titanium component intercepts all touch events. This prevents the user from interacting with the native web view components.

Set this flag to false to disable the default behavior. Setting this property to false allows the user to interact with the native web view and still honor any touch events sent to its parents. No touch events will be generated when the user interacts with the web view itself.

Set this flag to true if you want to receive touch events from the web view and the user does not need to interact with the web content directly.

This flag is true by default to retain backwards compatibility with previous behavior.

A view does not have a default z-index value, meaning that it is undefined by default. When this property is explicitly set, regardless of its value, it causes the view to be positioned in front of any sibling that has an undefined z-index.

Defaults to undefined.