React Native Webview not loading any url (React native web view not working)

Question

I am trying to implement react native webview component in my application, but the web view is not loading any url its just showing the white page.

var React = require('react-native');
var{
 View,
 Text,
 StyleSheet,
 WebView
} = React;


module.exports = React.createClass({
 render: function(){
   return(
     <View style={styles.container}>
      <WebView source={{uri: 'https://m.facebook.com'}} style= {styles.webView}/>
     </View>
   );
 }
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
   container: {
     flex:1,
     backgroundColor:  '#ff00ff'
   },webView :{
     height: 320,
     width : 200
   }
});

Below is the screenshot of the output .

just a note that webView includes 2 styles. one for container and one standard one. style={{ // add your style, eg. backgroundColor: 'transparent' }} containerStyle={[{ //add your style, eg. flex: 0, width: 300, height: 300 }]} — verunar
– verunar, Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 16:55

Gregoire Ducharme · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-04 22:01:56Z

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I had this issue. WebView would render when it was the only component returned, but not when nested in another View component.

For reasons I'm not entirely sure of the issue was resolved by setting a width property on the WebView component.

class App extends React.Component {
  render() {

    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <WebView
          source={{uri: 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/MhkGQAoc7bc'}}
          style={styles.video}
        />
        <WebView
          source={{uri: 'https://www.youtube.com/embed/PGUMRVowdv8'}}
          style={styles.video}
        />
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'space-between',

  },
  video: {
    marginTop: 20,
    maxHeight: 200,
    width: 320,
    flex: 1
  }
});

edited Sep 4, 2022 at 22:01

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answered Sep 29, 2016 at 23:55

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5 Comments

agm1984 Over a year ago

setting flex: 1 didn't work for me, on Android at least. Explicitly setting height and width did, however. (nested inside a <View />)

AndyO Over a year ago

Seems like it's quite fickle - for me, flex: 1 worked once I removed justify/align props. Guess I'll work my way from there now.

verunar Over a year ago

hi @AndyO, how did you manage to make the video 100% width in this case to make it responsive?

AndyO Over a year ago

@verunar I haven't used react native in many months. But what I can see in the code is that a) I'm not using the built-in web view but react-native-webview b) I have only flex: 1 on the parent and no styling on the web view itself.

Anas Over a year ago

for me, it was very weird solution, I just removing the URL and pasting it again a couple of times to make the app reload, and then it showing. I'm doing this after any change to the website because I noticed this reloads the web view cache

Rafal Wiliński · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-03 17:29:41Z

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I'm facing same issue. What I observed is that WebView doesn't work if it's nested. If component returns just WebView, then everything is fine.

answered Sep 3, 2016 at 17:29

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Deepak G M Over a year ago

This should be the correct answer. Specifying width for the webview is an obnoxious idea, especially when you need to cater to a wide range of devices with varying width.

Sandy Over a year ago

Isn't WebView a component that just returns a WebView?

Brandon Culley · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-09 16:22:28Z

Using the answers from other users, I was able to get my react native with webview working both inside a view and outside a view. My problem came down to two things. Being on the android emulator and behind a proxy, I just had to go to my browser (chrome) in the android emulator and sign in to the corporate proxy. Secondly, some sites work and others will not work. Whether the webview was nested or not inside of a View tag, some sites like cnn.com and slack.com etc will work fine, but no matter what settings I tried for google.com it wouldn't work (even though the proxy will definitely allow google.com) Lastly, when I rebuild my application and push to the emulator the new app, sometimes it took an inordinately long time to load any site. But once the site was loaded, the links are quick and responsive. So if you don't at first see something after a build, also be patient. Hope this helps someone else.

My final app.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  Platform,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View,
  Dimensions
} from 'react-native';

import { WebView } from 'react-native';

const deviceHeight = Dimensions.get('window').height;
const deviceWidth = Dimensions.get('window').width;

type Props = {};
export default class App extends Component<Props> {

  render() {
    return (
<View style={{flex:1}}>
  <WebView
   style={styles.webview}
   source={{uri: 'https://www.slack.com'}}
   javaScriptEnabled={true}
   domStorageEnabled={true}
   startInLoadingState={false}
   scalesPageToFit={true} />
</View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  webview: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: 'yellow',
    width: deviceWidth,
    height: deviceHeight
  }
});

No need to set flex: 1, you already cover the deviceWidth and deviceHeight.

ravibagul91 · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-15 12:21:50Z

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WebView works well on Android. However you need to enable javascript and dom storage for some web pages.

<WebView style={styles.webView}
    source={{uri: 'https://google.com/'}}
    javaScriptEnabled={true}
    domStorageEnabled={true}
    startInLoadingState={true}
    >
</WebView>

edited Sep 15, 2019 at 12:21

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answered Jan 12, 2017 at 8:27

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LilyJ · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-19 04:08:57Z

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If you want the component to render the entire page, you need to wrap it with View that has flex: 1. The code below works for me:

<View style={{flex:1, alignItems: 'flex-end'}}>
  <WebView
   source={{uri: this.state.webContentLink}}
   startInLoadingState={true}
   scalesPageToFit={true} />
</View>

answered Oct 19, 2016 at 4:08

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Gezim · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-06 00:43:21Z

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WebView is being moved to react-native-webview .

None of the other answers worked except this method:

npm install --save react-native-webview

Then use it as follows:

<View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'flex-end' }}>
      <WebView
        source={{
          uri: 'https://www.yahoo.com',
        }}
        startInLoadingState={true}
        scalesPageToFit={true}
        style={{
          width: 320,
          height: 300,
        }}
      />
</View>

edited Dec 6, 2019 at 0:43

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answered Aug 20, 2019 at 15:23

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Ajean · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-11 17:18:06Z

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<View>
    <WebView
        source={{uri: this.props.link}}
        style={styles.webview}
        javaScriptEnabled={true}
        domStorageEnabled={true}
        startInLoadingState={true}
    />
</View>

and style as follows:

const React = require('react-native');

const { Dimensions } = React;

const deviceHeight = Dimensions.get('window').height;
const deviceWidth = Dimensions.get('window').width;

export default {
  webview: {
      width: deviceWidth,
      height: deviceHeight
  }
};

All this to deal with bad webview dimension, so just set a specific height and specific width too (deviceHeight and deviceWidth as the example above).

edited May 11, 2017 at 17:18

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answered May 11, 2017 at 16:48

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M H Chu · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-02 00:05:24Z

As of June 2020 (noting the date because React Native answers seem to become out-of-date quickly), the simplest solution to this appears to be:

import React from 'react'
import { View, StyleSheet } from 'react-native'
import { WebView } from 'react-native-webview'

export const ComponentWithWebView = () => {
  return (
    <View style={styles.view}>
      <WebView source = {{uri: 'https://www.google.com/'}} />
    </View>
  )
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  view: {
    alignSelf: 'stretch',
    flex: 1,
  }
}

This results in a WebView filling the available space and being nested within a View. I believe the typical problems faced when placing a WebView within a View is that View expects children to force the View to expand (that is, a Text component would take up some amount of width and height which the View then accommodates). WebView, on the other hand, expands to the size of the parent component unless a style is passed specifying the width. Therefore, a simple <View><WebView /></View> results in a 0 width and nothing shown on the screen. The earlier solutions of setting the WebView width work well but require either the device dimensions to be fetched (which might not be the desired width) or for the View to have an onLayout function AND have some way to expand the View to the desired space. I found it easiest to just apply the flex: 1 and alignSelf: 'stretch' for the View to fill the space as desired and then WebView to automatically follow suit.

Hope this helps someone before it becomes obsolete!

Devashree · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-04 17:37:27Z

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I ran into the same issue recently. And I found that

alignment: 'center'

was causing the issue for me. I commented it and the webView got loaded immediately. I found the solution here : https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/5974 'brunocvcunha's' response worked for me.

answered Oct 4, 2018 at 17:37

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Pikachu-go · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-29 14:56:48Z

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Let me give the simplest example which will work seamlessly:

import React from 'react';
import { WebView  } from 'react-native';

export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <WebView
      source={{uri: 'https://github.com/facebook/react-native'}} 
    />

    );
  }
}

Do not add your WebView component within a view that created problem and webview url is not rendered rather styles of view will be shown.

answered Nov 29, 2018 at 14:56

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Aria Buckles · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-19 22:26:25Z

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I had the same issue and spent a day attempting to fix it. I copied in the UIExplorer webview example, and that didn't work.

I ultimately ended up upgrading react and creating a new react-native project and copying the files in there, and that fixed it.

I wish I had a better answer as to why that fixed it, but hopefully that helps

answered Feb 19, 2016 at 22:26

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Andrew Regan · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-23 15:23:28Z

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I am doing React Native Webview, Could you please suggest me how to makeWebview loading the uri

render() {
        return (
            <Modal
                animationType="slide"
                ref={"webModal"}
                style={{
                    justifyContent: 'center',
                    borderRadius: Platform.OS === 'ios' ? 30 : 0,
                    width: screen.width,
                    height: screen.height,borderColor:'red',
                    borderWidth: 5
                }}
                position='center'
                backdrop={false}
                onClosed={() => {
                    // alert("Modal closed");
                }}>

                <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row', justifyContent: 'space-between', paddingHorizontal: 20, top: 10 }} >
                    <Text style={{ fontSize: 24, fontWeight: '700' }}>
                        Interests
                                 </Text>
                    <Icon name="ios-close" size={40} color='purple' onPress={() => { this.refs.webModal.close() }} />
                </View>
                <WebView
                    source={{ uri: this.state.link }}
                    style={{ marginTop: 20,borderColor:'green',
                    borderWidth: 5 }}
                />

            </Modal>
        );
    }
}

edited Sep 23, 2019 at 15:23

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xiawi Over a year ago

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Rishabh Verma · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-24 17:15:45Z

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Try

<WebView
  source={{ uri: "https://inhall.in/" }}
  style={Styles.webView}
  javaScriptEnabled={true}
  scalesPageToFit />

javaScriptEnabled={true} might help

answered Aug 24, 2021 at 17:15

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Sumit Dhakad · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-19 06:00:16Z

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The only problem here is the width. Width in percentage will not work and flex will also not work. So set the width in numbers or you can get the device width and set that. that's it.

import { Dimensions } from 'react-native';
const deviceWidth = Dimensions.get('window').width;

and then in WevView

<View style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>
    <WebView
        mixedContentMode="compatibility"
        source={{ uri: 'https://www.google.com' }}
        startInLoadingState={true}
        scalesPageToFit={true}
        style={{
            width: deviceWidth,
              height: "100%",
            }}
    />
</View>

edited Apr 19, 2023 at 6:00

answered Apr 19, 2023 at 5:54

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Sir hennihau · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-05 19:59:33Z

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None of the other answers worked for me. I figured it was a compatibility issue with react-native navigation for me. i just didnt get it to work with other markup inside a tab navigation. moving it into a stack navigation fixed it for me, no idea how to make it work with tabs.

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michael_vons · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-22 09:09:38Z

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if by all means you need to add other components alongside the webView, then use a view fragment <>

<>
 <Text>Hello Webview</>
 <Webview source={{uri:"www.google.com"}} style={{flex:1}} />
</>

answered Nov 22, 2023 at 9:09

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Anas · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-19 16:30:36Z

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for me, after adding flex: 1 for the <WebView> or its parent, it was show in some cases, but in case is not showing, I discovered that the WebView has a chache which causing the latest html not showing. so I ended up to add cacheEnabled={false} property and it work perfectly like example below.

         <WebView
            style={{ flex: 1 }}
            originWhitelist={["*"]}
            cacheEnabled={false}
            source={{
              uri: "https://google.com",
            }}
          />

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Anurag Vijayvergia · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-25 18:26:40Z

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Below is piece of the code which worked for me.

render: function(){
   return(
     <View style={styles.container}>
      <WebView url={'https://m.facebook.com'} style= {styles.webView}/>
     </View>
   );
 }

answered Feb 25, 2016 at 18:26

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piotr_cz Over a year ago

You forgot to mention which styles have used

bhaRATh · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-21 07:23:34Z

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import { WebView } from 'react-native'; is deprecated

use below line instead

npm install [email protected] --save

then

import HTML from 'react-native-render-html';

react-native-render-html starting with version 4.2.0, react-native-webview is now a peer dependency. As a result, you need to install it yourself.

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answered May 20, 2020 at 6:07

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