Load local html into UIWebView using swift

ios swift uiwebview

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This one is driving me crazy early this morning. I want to load some local html into a web view:

class PrivacyController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var webView:UIWebView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        let url = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: "privacy.html")
        let request = NSURLRequest(URL: url!)
        webView.loadRequest(request)
    }
}

The html file is located in the root folder of my project but is inside a group. The webview is blank for me. Any ideas whats wrong? I am on xcode 6.1 and running this example on my iphone 6.

Answer

To retrieve URLs for application resources, you should use URLForResource method of NSBundle class.

Swift 2

let url = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("privacy", withExtension:"html")

Swift 3

let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "privacy", withExtension: "html")

Load local html into UIWebView using swift

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