PhoneGap/Cordova: Open a url in the same UIWebView programmatically

gistfile1.js

    function openInWebView(url)
    {
        var anchor = document.createElement('a');
        anchor.setAttribute('href', url);
        //anchor.setAttribute('target', '_self');
        
        var dispatch = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents')
        dispatch.initEvent('click', true, true);
        
        anchor.dispatchEvent(dispatch);
    }
        

usage in PhoneGap:
If you want "http://google.com" to open inside the current UIWebView, call it like this (after including the code above in your HTML page or JavaScript file):

openInWebView('http://google.com')

Make sure you added google.com in your PhoneGap.plist/ExternalHosts whitelist

Hi, if I click a link in google.com ,then it will open in a new safari window, how to fix this?

sorry, remove the line anchor.setAttribute('target', '_self');

Is this function necessary anymore? With the latest PhoneGap 2.2.0, I just wrote:

window.location.href = url;

its not work too