How to add padding around a WebView

The WebView has a bug in the padding implementation. Setting a padding on a webview won't pad the actual web page, but WILL pad the scrollbars. It's only partially working as expected. Your solution is the best way to achieve 'padding' for a WebView.

Another workaround for this problem could be in javascript usage. So when your webpage is loaded you can do such js call to set paddings:

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {    @Override    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {        webView.loadUrl("javascript:document.body.style.margin=\"8%\"; void 0");    }});

Alternative approach would be to set the WebView inside of a ScrollView

Then you can add left/right margin to the WebView and it will get the padding effect. The scrolling however will be handled by the ScrollView.

<ScrollView style="@style/MatchMatch">    <WebView        android:id="@+id/my_web_view"        android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/webViewMargin"        android:layout_marginRight="@dimen/webViewMargin"        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/></ScrollView>

This will cause the scrollbar to be placed outside of the WebView which is the behavior I wanted for my app.