Open Link in UIWebView in Safari - iphone

Question

I am working on an app that receives a feed that I display in a UIWebView. The feed has embedded links that I want to open in Safari instead of thew WebView. I have looked over several other questions that are posted here. I am not sure what I am missing, but I think it is something simple. Here are my .h and .m files
#import
#class BlogRss;
#interface EnduranceDailyWorkoutViewController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIWebView * descriptionTextView;
BlogRss * currentlySelectedBlogItem;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) UIWebView * descriptionTextView;
#property (readwrite, retain) BlogRss * currentlySelectedBlogItem;
#end
#import "EnduranceDailyWorkoutViewController.h"
#import "BlogRss.h"
#implementation EnduranceDailyWorkoutViewController
#synthesize descriptionTextView = descriptionTextView;
#synthesize currentlySelectedBlogItem = currentlySelectedBlogItem;
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#",currentlySelectedBlogItem.title, currentlySelectedBlogItem.contentEncoded];
[descriptionTextView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:nil]];
}
-(BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)descriptionTextView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
if (UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked == navigationType) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[request URL]];
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
Using Interface Builder I have linked the IBOutlet and the UIWebView. Please let me know what I am missing. I have put break points in the webView section but the code never hits there so it is almost like something is not linked correctly in IB.

Answer 1

You need to ensure that the UIWebView's delegate is set to your controller. You can do this in interface builder, or you can modify your viewDidLoad method:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// add this line to set the delegate of the UIWebView
descriptionTextView.delegate = self;
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#",currentlySelectedBlogItem.title, currentlySelectedBlogItem.contentEncoded];
[descriptionTextView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:nil]];
}