Links Inside Webview

abhishek007p

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Hi,

i am showing a HTML page to the user using webview control. at the bottom of the page i have added links to website that user can visit. but the problem is when the user clicks on the link, the page gets opened inside the webview even through i have used _blank as target for my links.

i want that if a user click certain links inside webview it should open the device's web browser.

any help on this?

thanks,
abhishek
 
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abhishek007p

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Thanks.
but that would make all links inside webview to open in web browser. i only want certain links to open in browser. is there an alternative? like inserting a HTML tag to the link and only those with that tag will open.
 
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margret

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Try this:

B4X: 
Sub WebView1_OverrideUrl(Url As String) As Boolean
   ToastMessageShow("Loading Page..." & CRLF & Url, False)
   'The character below ">" can be anything you want to add to the Link
   If Url.StartsWith(">") Then
      Dim p As PhoneIntents
      StartActivity(p.OpenBrowser(Url))
   Else
      WebView1.LoadUrl(Url)
   End If   
   Return False
End Sub
 
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mc73

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Shouldn't we get the '>' out of the link when loading?
Actually I don't really know how the browser will handle this extra char, perhaps it will not have a problem, but just to be sure:
B4X: 
StartActivity(p.OpenBrowser(Url.substring(1)))
 
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