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A button in my WebView is used to go back using the history.back() JavaScript call. I do not understand much of JavaScript, but after a bit of searching I found that we can use the addJavascriptInterface() method of a WebView.

Now, I intend to finish my Activity when the button is clicked. I landed up having something of this sort:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
private static final String sTag = "MyActivity";

private WebView mWebContent;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.browser_page);


    mWebContent = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webContent);

    mWebContent.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebContent.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
    mWebContent.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    mWebContent.addJavascriptInterface(new JavaScriptInterface(), "history"); //history.back();

    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();

    if (extras != null) {
        mWebContent.loadUrl(extras.getString("URL"));
    }
}

    public class JavaScriptInterface {
        JavaScriptInterface() {
        }

    public void back() {
        Log.v(sTag, "back pressed");
        MyActivity.this.finish();
    }
}
}

But unfortunately when the button is pressed the Activity doesn't finish, neither do I get anything in the Log.

Here is the html for the button :

<a href="javascript:void(0);">
   <img src="images/btn-go-back.png" onClick="history.back();" border="0" />
</a>

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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Edit : Just wanted to clear the fact that changing the html is not an option for me. I have no power over the the html code :). I have to handle it in the application.

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Edit: Tried changing history.back() to window.history.back() (locally), still no change.

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Edit : I was experimenting by locally loading html conent and found out that if I change history.back() to say something like android_app.back() and register my JavaScriptInterface by the nameandroid_app it works fine. Why is that? Does that mean that we can't use history to register an interface? Does the developer docs mention this?

A button in my WebView is used to go back using the history.back() JavaScript call. I do not understand much of JavaScript, but after a bit of searching I found that we can use the addJavascriptInterface() method of a WebView.

Now, I intend to finish my Activity when the button is clicked. I landed up having something of this sort:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
private static final String sTag = "MyActivity";

private WebView mWebContent;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.browser_page);


    mWebContent = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webContent);

    mWebContent.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebContent.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
    mWebContent.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    mWebContent.addJavascriptInterface(new JavaScriptInterface(), "history"); //history.back();

    Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();

    if (extras != null) {
        mWebContent.loadUrl(extras.getString("URL"));
    }
}

    public class JavaScriptInterface {
        JavaScriptInterface() {
        }

    public void back() {
        Log.v(sTag, "back pressed");
        MyActivity.this.finish();
    }
}
}

But unfortunately when the button is pressed the Activity doesn't finish, neither do I get anything in the Log.

Here is the html for the button :

<a href="javascript:void(0);">
   <img src="images/btn-go-back.png" onClick="history.back();" border="0" />
</a>

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

---

Edit : Just wanted to clear the fact that changing the html is not an option for me. I have no power over the the html code :). I have to handle it in the application.

---

Edit: Tried changing history.back() to window.history.back() (locally), still no change.

---

Edit : I was experimenting by locally loading html conent and found out that if I change history.back() to say something like android_app.back() and register my JavaScriptInterface by the nameandroid_app it works fine. Why is that? Does that mean that we can't use history to register an interface? Does the developer docs mention this?

• javascript
• android
• webkit
• webview

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Read the Navigating web page history section of this article. It tells pletely about the android webviews.It tells about how to make webviews handle history.

http://developer.android./guide/webapps/webview.html

Hope this helps.

Try <a href="#" onclick="window.history.back()"><img src="bla" /></a>

edit: just read you can't change the HTML code .. Don't see a solution then ..

After a lot of searching and asking I have finally arrived at the conclusion that you cannot add a java script interface, using addJavascriptInterface (Object obj, String interfaceName), with the interface name as history (or perhaps any javascript keyword).

Maybe this is written somewhere in the developer docs or manual, but I couldn't find it though.

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