Add ability to focus the <WebView>

[vladikoff]

• I have reviewed the documentation
• I have searched existing issues
• I am using the latest React Native version

Environment

Environment:
OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.2
Node: 8.10.0
Yarn: 1.3.2
npm: 5.8.0
Watchman: 4.9.0
Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
Android Studio: 3.1 AI-173.4697961

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: ~16.2.0 => 16.2.0
react-native: ~0.54.2 => 0.54.2

Expected Behavior

The https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/webview.html WebView component should have a way to autofocus itself. Once the autofocus is triggered, the HTML elements that have autofocus attributes will be focused in the loaded

Actual Behavior

No API available at this time

[react-native-bot]

Thanks for posting this! It looks like your issue may be missing some necessary information. Can you run react-native info and edit your issue to include these results under the Environment section?

Thank you for your contributions.

[vladikoff]

@react-native-bot sure buddy, here you go:

Environment:
  OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.2
  Node: 8.10.0
  Yarn: 1.3.2
  npm: 5.8.0
  Watchman: 4.9.0
  Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
  Android Studio: 3.1 AI-173.4697961

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: ~16.2.0 => 16.2.0
  react-native: ~0.54.2 => 0.54.2

[vladikoff]

Also filed under https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50024656/how-to-focus-a-webview-in-react-native

[react-native-bot]

Thanks for posting this! It looks like your issue may refer to an older version of React Native. Can you reproduce the issue on the latest release, v0.55?

Thank you for your contributions.

[vladikoff]

@react-native-bot yes, we just upgraded to v0.55 and this still is an issue

[react-native-bot]

Thanks for posting this! It looks like your issue may refer to an older version of React Native. Can you reproduce the issue on the latest release, v0.55?

Thank you for your contributions.

[react-native-bot]

It looks like your issue may refer to an older version of React Native. Can you reproduce the issue on the latest release, v0.55?

[hbarylskyi]

@vladikoff I think you should try changing react-native versions in issue description for the bot to understand you :)

[ocyedwin]

@vladikoff I'm also facing issue and wonder if you've found any solution.

[vladikoff]

@ocyedwin One solution i found was recompiling react-native from source and tweaking the WebView code so it requests focus

[ocyedwin]

@vladikoff Nice! Any intention sharing the tweak or even doing a PR?

[vladikoff]

@ocyedwin posted a solution in https://stackoverflow.com/a/50635924/216672 Let me know if you need help

[TryImpossible]

@vladikoff There is a solution in react-native-enhance-webview，you can know it if you need

[vladikoff]

@TryImpossible nice! thank you

[stale]

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[stale]

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