Web View

The Web View widget is used for displaying an embedded browser window within an application

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Usage

import toga

web = toga.WebView(url='https://google.com')

Supported Platforms

Component iOS win32 web django cocoa gtk android
WebView yes no no yes yes yes no

Reference

class toga.interface.widgets.webview.WebView(id=None, style=None, url=None, on_key_down=None)

Web view widget

Instantiate a new instance of the tree widget

Parameters:
  • id (str) – An identifier for this widget.
  • style (colosseum.CSSNode) – an optional style object. If no style is provided then a new one will be created for the widget.
  • url (str) – The URL to start with
  • on_key_down (callable) – The callback method for when the a key is pressed within the web view
add(child)

Add a widget as a child of this one.

Raises an ValueError if this widget is a leaf, and cannot have children.

Parameters:child (toga.Widget) – The child to add to the widget
app

The App to which this widget belongs.

Return type:toga.App
children

The children of this node.

This always returns a list, even if the node is a leaf and cannot have children.

Return type:list
Returns:A list of the children for this widget
evaluate(javascript)

Evaluate a JavaScript expression

Parameters:javascript (str) – The javascript expression
hide()

Hide the widget from the super view.

id

The node identifier. This id can be used to target CSS directives

Return type:str
parent

The parent of this node.

Return type:toga.Widget
set_content(root_url, content)

Set the content of the web view

Parameters:
  • root_url (str) – The URL
  • content (str) – The new content
set_font(font)

Set a font on this widget.

Parameters:font (toga.Font) – The new font
show()

Show the widget on the super view.

style

The style object for this widget.

Returns:The style for this widget
Return type:colosseum.CSSNode
url

The current URL

Return type:str
window

The Window to which this widget belongs.

Return type:toga.Window