iPhone Development - Setting UIWebView font

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I have to show rich text that i pull from server, so i'm using UIWebView. Now the problem is that i have no control over the font which is used in UIWebView. How can i change the font to use system font (making it consistent with rest of the application)?

I'm doing something like this at the moment:

myRichTextView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];
myRichTextView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[myRichTextView setScalesPageToFit:NO];
[myRichTextView loadHTMLString:myString baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:myBaseURL]];

Again, need to control the display font. If i can't control the font, please let me know other alternatives to UIWebView.

Thanks

uiwebview iphone
9 Answers

It worked when i modified the string like this. Your right chris, it shouldn't make any difference.

NSString *myDescriptionHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html> \n"
                                "<head> \n"
                                "<style type=\"text/css\"> \n"
                                "body {font-family: \"%@\"; font-size: %@;}\n"
                                "</style> \n"
                                "</head> \n"
                                "<body>%@</body> \n"
                                "</html>", @"helvetica", [NSNumber numberWithInt:kFieldFontSize], content];
Mustafa_497390

Reference a css style sheet in your HTML document or put the style information into the top of the HTML document itself

Admin1

I use the following CSS in a web view to do exactly what you are saying.

body
{
    font-family:helvetica;
}

But yours looks the like it should work as well. Strange. Only difference I can see is the font vs font-family, but that shouldn't make a difference.

chris.

PyjamaSam_554530

just change

font:helvetica

to

font-family:helvetica

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