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I have searched on S/O and none of the answers have applied to my code so I am assuming its something I am missing in my code.

I added a UIWebView using Interface Builder called showAbout

I declared an iVar with an IBOutlet here:

@interface About : UIViewController<UIWebViewDelegate>
{
   IBOutlet UIWebView *showAbout;
}


@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWebView *showAbout;

I verified that InterfaceBuilder does in fact have an outlet set for it.

Here is how I am setting it up in the about.m

 showAbout.scalesPageToFit = YES;
    NSString *thePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" ofType:@"html"];
    if (thePath) {
        NSData *aboutData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:thePath];
        [showAbout loadData:aboutData MIMEType:@"application/html"
                        textEncodingName:@"utf-8" baseURL:nil];

The UIWebView is not displaying my HTML page that I have added to the project.

Any ideas...

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stackoverflow.com/questions/6263289/… may be your problem. –  user2579943 Jul 14 '13 at 20:24
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is aboutData nil? –  Paul Cezanne Jul 23 '13 at 22:54
    
@PaulCezanne, I didnt set up this bounty from my mac... will check tonight and advise. –  logixologist Jul 23 '13 at 22:56
    
@PaulCezanne aboutData is not nil. It actually finds the html file because it shows 118 bytes. (or its finding some file) –  logixologist Jul 24 '13 at 6:14
    
Thank you all for helping out with this. It turns out it was a very easy MIME Type issue. Though the changing it to an NSString was an option, the MIME type change offered by @omz was the best solution for me because it was the least amount of code to change. –  logixologist Jul 24 '13 at 16:22

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The correct MIME type for HTML is text/html, not application/html, so you should use that for the MIMEType argument.

Alternatively, you could also convert your NSData object to an NSString and use the loadHTMLString:baseURL: method of UIWebView.

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probably it is better to use NSString and load html document as follows:

ViewController.h file

@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIWebView *webView;

make sure that property is connected to webView in XIB/StoryBoard

ViewController.m file

 NSString *htmlFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" ofType:@"html"];
    NSString* htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:htmlFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
    [self.webView loadHTMLString:htmlString baseURL:nil];
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In .h file you need initial a webview outlet

    IBOutlet UIWebView *_wvSetting;

In .m file

        NSString htmlContent = nil;
        htmlContent = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"about" ofType:@"html"] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
        [_wvSetting loadHTMLString:htmlContent baseURL:nil];
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