How to show scroll bars in android's WebView

Question

Is it possible to show scrollbars for scrollable html elements in android's WebView? How to do it?

Answer 1

in your onCreate() method : try this :

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.your_web_view_layout); 

    browser = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.your_webview);
    WebSettings mWebSettings = browser.getSettings();
    mWebSettings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    browser.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);
    browser.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false);
    browser.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");
}