Disabling 'go' button form submission in Android when using webview

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I'm developing an Android application and I use a WebView to embed forms into my application. My problem is that android has a soft keyboard and when the user presses 'go' on this keyboard it submits the form. How can I prevent this from happening? I did a power search on google but I did not find any solutions.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '11 at 10:24

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Ok in the meantime i got a very simple solution: In the manifest XML:

<activity android:name="..."
...
android:imeOptions="actionSend|flagNoEnterAction"
...
</activity>

This way the 'go' button got replaced by 'done' and it hides the keyboard.

answered Feb 24 '11 at 10:24

Adam Arold

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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Create a WebViewClient class and register it with your WebView.

This post discusses this: Android - how to intercept a form POST in android WebViewClient on API level 4

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Feb 24 '11 at 10:17

Peter Knego

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Thanks for the quick response. By the way I already got my own client running. :) – Adam Arold Feb 24 '11 at 10:24

Disabling 'go' button form submission in Android when using webview

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