Disable Back / forward swipe navigation in WebView

Question

I am making a kiosk type app for Android and Windows with touch screens that will host a dedicated web application inside a Webview. It runs full screen. However I need to disable any kind of navigation and context menus that the webview can do. I need to disable the swipe to go back or forward, which is a function coming from Edge. ( I tried to disable it in Edge in my computer, but this does not affect the Webview). I also need to disable the right-click context menu from Edge in the Webview. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Hello,

You can disable right-click context menu by coreWebView2.Settings.AreDefaultContextMenusEnabled = false; and disable the swipe navigation by coreWebView2.Settings.IsSwipeNavigationEnabled = false;

Firstly, please add x:Name for your webview. Then you can get the webview object in the background code and implement the Navigation event. Please use Conditional compilation to wrap this event as well.

#if WINDOWS
            Mywebview.Navigating += Mywebview_Navigating;
#endif

Then, you can disable the right-click context menu and the swipe navigation like following code.

 private void Mywebview_Navigating(object? sender, WebNavigatingEventArgs e)
        {
#if WINDOWS
            WebView webview = (WebView)sender;
            Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core.CoreWebView2 coreWebView2 = (webview.Handler.PlatformView as Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.WebView2).CoreWebView2;
            coreWebView2.Settings.IsSwipeNavigationEnabled = false;
            coreWebView2.Settings.AreDefaultContextMenusEnabled = false;    
            coreWebView2.Settings.AreBrowserAcceleratorKeysEnabled = false;
            webview.Navigating -= Mywebview_Navigating;
#endif
        }

Best Regards, Leon Lu

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