iOS Disable Horizontal Scrolling in UIWebView

[nomar383]

Okay, so I am writing an iPhone app that is basically one view (a UIWebView) that pulls down a bunch of text from my website. I have properly formatted the text on the server-side with CSS/HTML. However, I want to disable both horizontal scrolling, as well as the autorotation feature.

When I add more text than the screen can hold, it disables horizontal scrolling for me automatically (only vertical is enabled at that point). When there is not enough text to fill the entire screen, then both horizontal and vertical scrolling are both turned on (that little "bounce" animation).

I would like to disable the horizontal scrolling completely from the client side. Meaning the UITextView. Advice?

 

[jnic]

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320, initial-scale=1.0" />

 

[nomar383]

This would go on the server-side in the main HTML file, correct? Thanks!

 

[jnic]

Yup, More detail here: http://furbo.org/2007/07/24/one-line-of-code/

 

[nomar383]

How different is that from what I'm using right now? Will it do the job better?

<script Language="JavaScript">
window.resizeTo(320,480)
</script>

 

[nomar383]

Well I tried it, and it does the same thing as the script I had. The page still "bounces back" when you drag your finger left or right. Any other ideas?

 

[jnic]

No idea, try it out and post back your findings, would be interested if yours is a better way.

Edit: Posted before I saw your last.

 

[jnic]

Well I tried it, and it does the same thing as the script I had. The page still "bounces back" when you drag your finger left or right. Any other ideas?

You could overlay a view and only pass the vertical component of the touch to the web view.