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iOS

Posted by Fred Lawton
Fred Lawton
5,904 Points

How to set text color in UIWebView?

I'm using the method loadHTMLString:baseURL to place content in a UIWebView.

I'd like to set the text color of the text shown in the UIWebView.

I've searched around and found two things mentioned: 1) I need to modify the html string by adding html code to set the color. 2) I saw something about NSAttributedStrings, but I haven't figure out how to use this yet.

I don't know html, so I'd prefer to avoid it if possible.

1 Answer

Robert Bojor
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points

Hi Fred,

You can easily change the color of the text by wrapping the HTML into a div tag with an inline style.

<div style="color:#cc0000">...your html...</div>

NSString *finalHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@", @"<div style=\"color:#cc0000\">", initialHTML, @"</div>"];
Fred Lawton
Fred Lawton
5,904 Points

Thanks. That worked. However, as I mentioned, I don't know html. Is there a similar line of code to set the color via RGB values?

Found answer to my last question.

Replace the #cc0000 method to specify color with rgb(191,195,207) as shown at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_font_color.asp.

Robert Bojor
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points

Yep, that will work as well, didn't cross my mind to specify it also in the first place.