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androidhtmltextview
marco
marco

Reputation: 1752

Android TextView: text not shown if setText from HTML and android:singleLine="true"

I'm setting a text to a TextView calling

tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"" + link + "\">" + text + "</a>"));

This text is a web link.

This was working fine till I cut the text by myself. Now that I've set:

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="end"

to the TextView, the text is not visible anymore.

Is it a known issue or what ?

EDIT:

To let others better understand the problem, I explain in details what was happening:

This was my TextView:

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/txtEventRecipient"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:enabled="true"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:linksClickable="true"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:textColor="@drawable/elv_title_1_selector"
        android:textSize="@dimen/small_text_size"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:typeface="normal" />

This the code where I set the text as link:

TextView tv = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.txtEventRecipient); 
String userName = "<a user name got from somewhere>";

// here I was cutting the userName as it's length must fit 
if (userName.length() > 16)
    userName = userName.substring(0, 15) + "…";

// here I set the link to the user
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"" + link + "\">" + userName + "</a>"));
tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

This was working but with a horrible fixed 16 as max length so I decided to make it more dynamic with the "singleLine".

The singleLine="true" is causing the problem not showing the text as HTML link.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 267

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006634

android:singleLine has been more-or-less deprecated for a while. It only infrequently works. android:maxLines="1" is more typical nowadays.

Upvotes: 1

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