Thanks, Jason and Craig! Those were both helpful. Craig, what you're doing is way more efficient than how I was going about things.
Of course, it turns out [1] that I'm an idiot and my problem was simpler than that. My original inline style code was correct...but I forgot to use string literals for the quotation marks. :-/ --Chris [1] This is really falls more under the heading of "Further Confirmation" than "New Information". --Chris Craig Dunn-2 wrote > > in the Monospace11 app - https://github.com/conceptdev/Monospace11 - some > of the screens use webviews for formatting (found it faster to format > nicely, and work cross-platform with Android). > > anyway, check out the > SpeakerBioViewController<https://github.com/conceptdev/Monospace11/blob/master/iOS/TabSpeakers/SpeakerBioViewController.cs>, > SessionViewController<https://github.com/conceptdev/Monospace11/blob/master/iOS/TabSessions/SessionViewController.cs>and > WebViewControllerBase<https://github.com/conceptdev/Monospace11/blob/master/iOS/WebViewControllerBase.cs> > > > in the *WebViewControllerBase* class i have a snippet of stylesheet that > gets re-used on each screen > > public string StyleHtmlSnippet > { > get > { // http://jonraasch.com/blog/css-rounded-corners-in-all-browsers > return ""; > } > } > > and then the code calls 'FormatText()' (which is overridden in the > subclasses) and display the html in a webview. notice it sets up the base > directory so that images from inside the app bundle can be displayed (eg. > background image referenced in the CSS). i've summarised the ViewDidLoad() > method here: > > basedir = Environment.GetFolderPath > (System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal); > basedir = System.IO.Path.Combine (basedir, "..", "Monospace11.app"); // > USE > YOUR APP BUNDLE NAME > webView.LoadHtmlString(FormatText(), new NSUrl(basedir, true)); > > THEN in the *subclasses*, override FormatText() to return a string of > HTML, > incorporating the StyleHtmlSnippet and using styled elements like H2, and > class = body or sessionspeak... > > protected override string FormatText () > { > StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); > sb.Append (StyleHtmlSnippet); > sb.Append (" " + _speaker.Name + " " + Environment.NewLine); > if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (_speaker.Bio)) { > sb.Append ("" + _speaker.Bio + "<br/>"); > } > sb.Append ("<br />"); > foreach (var session in _speaker.Sessions) { > sb.Append ("<div class='sessionspeaker'> http://MIX10.app/"; + session.Code + " " + session.Title + " </div><br > />"); > } > return sb.ToString (); > } > > IF you need to catch links inside the HTML and do custom stuff, for more > info on making the http://MIX10.app urls work, see the > WebViewDelegate.ShouldStartLoad() methods in each page... > > HTH > cd > > -- View this message in context: http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Need-Simple-UIWebView-Example-to-Format-Text-tp4656902p4656912.html Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
