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Matt S.
Matt S.

Reputation: 13753

Cocoa: Display HTML from string

How can I display properly formatted text from an NSString, that just happens to be HTML. The html is coming from the stack overflow API.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2424

Answers (3)

Peter Hosey
Peter Hosey

Reputation: 96323

You could have a WebView, and tell the WebView's mainFrame to load the HTML string.

If you meant to ask about Cocoa Touch, UIWebView has an equivalent method for you.

Upvotes: 0

mbauman
mbauman

Reputation: 31342

If your tags are accurate and you are programming for OS X (or iPhone 4.0+), you can use NSAttributedString's – initWithHTML:documentAttributes:, and then draw that directly.

Unfortunately, the iPhone OS' UIKit does not contain NSAttributedString pre-4.0. The current recommendation from the developer docs is to use a UIWebView, which sucks. An alternative might be the Three20 library, which contains TTStyledText -- that looks like it might do the job.

Upvotes: 1

zneak
zneak

Reputation: 138031

You can create a NSAttributedString from HTML. You then draw it as you would draw any other NSAttributedString.

Upvotes: 7

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