uiscrollview - Preventing a UIWebView from scrolling after tapping a link -

i've got uiwebview displaying long chunk of html multiple embedded images wrapped in links. webview scrollable content "below fold" accessible.

when links tapped, i'm using webview:shouldstartloadwithrequest:navigationtype:navigationtype method catch specific javascript call, triggers modal load of uiviewcontroller on top of webview.

as link tapped, webview's contentoffset reset 0,0, page appears "jump" top. ideally, i'd webview's contentoffset remain until modal view controller dismissed.

i've tried setting webview.scrollview.scrollenabled property no shouldstartloadwithrequest method called - doesn't stop webview scrolling.

i've tried saving contentoffset value @ point link tapped, , manually resetting - again, doesn't stop webview scrolling.

is there way of preventing scrolling happening??

this turns out nothing uiwebview @ all, , standard browser behaviour.

the links in html in form

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('js-call:image-xx');">   <img src='foo.jpg'> </a> 

the problem hadn't defined # anchor, page scrolling top when altering html to

<a name="image-xx"> <a href="image-xx" onclick="window.open('js-call:image-xx');">   <img src='foo.jpg'> </a> 

fixes issue.