Creating a back button for WebView

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#1

Hi,

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a button that will allow me in a web view to go back a page. I have been looking at event.url and I do not think that will help me and I have also been reading into object.canGoBack. I was just wondering is there an easy way to implement a button that would allow my web view to go back a page?

#2

Most browsers have their navigation buttons outside the web page itself. Any nav button on the page would likely get lost when the page changes to a different site…

#3

If you want an onscreen back button you will have to make your web view not full screen.  The web view is not open GL so therefore it will appear above any native corona objects.  

On android you can hook into the system event and trap the soft back button and adapt accordingly.  iOS is more problematic obviously as it has no back button.

#4

I have been trying to make an on screen back button. As of right now my web view is not full screen and I have created two navigation buttons on the top of the web view, one to go back to a home screen and the other I am trying to allow the user to go back a page within the web view. So basically what you are saying is that there is no easy way to do it for iOS?

#5

Most browsers have their navigation buttons outside the web page itself. Any nav button on the page would likely get lost when the page changes to a different site…

#6

If you want an onscreen back button you will have to make your web view not full screen.  The web view is not open GL so therefore it will appear above any native corona objects.  

On android you can hook into the system event and trap the soft back button and adapt accordingly.  iOS is more problematic obviously as it has no back button.

#7

I have been trying to make an on screen back button. As of right now my web view is not full screen and I have created two navigation buttons on the top of the web view, one to go back to a home screen and the other I am trying to allow the user to go back a page within the web view. So basically what you are saying is that there is no easy way to do it for iOS?