I'm stuck on getting some pretty basic JS to run in my UIWebView. In the web view's delegate, I have :
- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)wView {
NSString *someHTML = [wView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.getElementsByClassName('box')[0]"];
NSString *allHTML = [wView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.innerHTML"];
NSLog(@"someHTML: %@", someHTML);
NSLog(@"allHTML: %@", allHTML);
}
but when the method is invoked, someHTML is nil while allHTML contains the entire body of the HTML in the webview.
I've run the JS in the Safari JS console and it works just fine (it finds a div of class 'box' so I know that its in the HTML)
Any suggestions?
More info:
FWIW, result in each of the following is also nil
NSString *result = [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: @"document"];
NSLog (@"1. result: %@", result); //should log the document object?
result = [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: @"document.body"];
NSLog (@"2. result: %@", result); //should log the document body
result = [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: @"document.body.getElementsByClassName"];
NSLog (@"3. result: %@", result); //should log a function
result = [self.webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString: @"document.body.getElementsByClassName('box')[0]"];
NSLog (@"4. result: %@", result); //should log the node
Changing
NSString *someHTML = [wView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.getElementsByClassName('box')[0]"];
to
NSString *someHTML = [wView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.getElementsByClassName('box')[0].innerHTML;"];
(added the .innerHTML)
makes all the difference in the world . . .