How do I display limited html content in a webview?

iOS - display content from an html resource file or remote webpage in a webview

• I am an iOS newbie. I want to have a function that loads the content from a local html resource file or a webpage depending on what is specified in a constant. How would I go about doing it? For eg, if I pass a file://... to the function or an http://... , it should render accordingly.

• Answer:

  You can easily load webpages like this: NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://stackoverflow.com"]] ; [webView loadRequest:request] ; For local files it depends on the location of the file on your device: For files in your main-bundle (= your project), you can use the same loadRequest function, but build the path differently: NSString *localFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"index" ofType:@"html"] ; NSURLRequest *localRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath:localFilePath]] ; [webView loadRequest:request] ; and if you want to load a html-string in your webView: NSString *bundlePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]; NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:bundlePath]; NSString *htmlString = [bundlePath pathForResource:@"index" ofType:@"html"] ; [webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:baseURL]; and if your html-file resides in your documents folder of your application (for example a html-file you downloaded): NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask ,YES ); NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"index.html"]; NSURLRequest *documentsRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]] ; [webView loadRequest:documentsRequest] ;