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PhoneGap/Cordova: Open a url in the same UIWebView programmatically
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gistfile1.js
function openInWebView(url)
{
var anchor = document.createElement('a');
anchor.setAttribute('href', url);
//anchor.setAttribute('target', '_self');
var dispatch = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents')
dispatch.initEvent('click', true, true);
anchor.dispatchEvent(dispatch);
}
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shazron commented Feb 10, 2012

usage in PhoneGap:
If you want "http://google.com" to open inside the current UIWebView, call it like this (after including the code above in your HTML page or JavaScript file):

openInWebView('http://google.com')

Make sure you added google.com in your PhoneGap.plist/ExternalHosts whitelist

@avatasia
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Hi, if I click a link in google.com ,then it will open in a new safari window, how to fix this?

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shazron commented Mar 30, 2012

sorry, remove the line anchor.setAttribute('target', '_self');

@joe1chen
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Is this function necessary anymore? With the latest PhoneGap 2.2.0, I just wrote:

window.location.href = url;

@abdoroot
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its not work too

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