Clearing a web page from a view

I am trying to clear a webview from the view in my application.

I clear this by using: MyWebView.loadUrl("about:blank");

This works sometimes, but other times when I load the emulator this gives a force close error:

03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380): java.lang.NullPointerException
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at com.edu.WordJumbleMain$5.onClick(WordJumbleMain.java:168)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2408)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:8816)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteIni开发者_StackOverflow社区t.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
03-18 14:58:29.560: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(380):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Is there any other way to clear the webview from the view.

Thanks

Raj,

Perhaps you simply want to use the clearView() method?

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