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How to disable zoom in Windows 8 webviews

I'm using a webview in an app to display externally hosted content, but the web view lets the user zoom with a pinch gesture and I'd like to disable this.

I can't find any such property on the webview itself, and I've not had any success with a viewport meta tag such as:

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no">

Is there a way to do this?

Solution

  • Unfortunately this is not possible.

    http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/winappswithcsharp/thread/8eecf85d-ebd3-4bc0-ad17-15f342efad25

    If the WebView works similarly to the WP7 version then you may be able to catch the events in html and cancel them there similarly to this.