How to clear WebView content?

Question

I have a WebView in my app with wrap_content width and height

Before I use webview.loadData, the width and height of the it was 0, after I load a page (or I use webview.loadData) , it'll display a web page.

My question is , how can I clear the webview to recover it back to the original state, just as before it loadData?

Answer 1

I found this answer, pretty helpful: How do I clear a WebView's content before loading a page?

It is for Cocoa, but basically just call:

webView.loadUrl("about:blank") 

Answer 2

The only complete solution is to check for SDK version.

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 18) {    webView.clearView(); } else {    webView.loadUrl("about:blank"); }