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okmanideep
okmanideep

Reputation: 1080

Html Tag Handler not called in Android N for "ul", "li"

We have a custom TagHandler in our app for bulleted list etc. 

html = "<ul><li>First item</li><li>Second item</li></ul>";
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
  result = Html.fromHtml(html,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY, null, new ListHTMLTagHandler(density));
} else {
  //noinspection deprecation
  result = Html.fromHtml(html, null, new ListHTMLTagHandler(density));
}

The handleTag() function in my TagHandler is called for ul, li in API-23 and below but not called in API-24 (Android N).

Upvotes: 11

Views: 4168

Answers (2)

okmanideep
okmanideep

Reputation: 1080

It is evident from the source of Html.java that, TagHandler.handleTag() is called only if the framework doesn't process it, itself.

Currently, the framework doesn't seem to process it well. Android N li tag handling

But even if it did it well, you would want to customize it anyway. The best way to deal with this is to replace the default ul, li tags with your own tags. Since the framework won't process your custom tags, your TagHandler will be asked to handle it.

static final String UL = "custom-ul";
static final String OL = "custom-ol";
static final String DD = "custom-dd";
static final String LI = "custom-li";

public static String customizeListTags(@Nullable String html) {
  if (html == null) {
    return null;
  }
  html = html.replace("<ul", "<" + UL);
  html = html.replace("</ul>", "</" + UL + ">");
  html = html.replace("<ol", "<" + OL);
  html = html.replace("</ol>", "</" + OL + ">");
  html = html.replace("<dd", "<" + DD);
  html = html.replace("</dd>", "</" + DD + ">");
  html = html.replace("<li", "<" + LI);
  html = html.replace("</li>", "</" + LI + ">");
  return html;
}

And then you can process your html string like

html = customizeListTags(html);
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
  result = Html.fromHtml(html,Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY, null, new CustomTagHandler());
} else {
  //noinspection deprecation
  result = Html.fromHtml(html, null, new CustomTagHandler());
}

Upvotes: 16

Paul Lammertsma
Paul Lammertsma

Reputation: 38282

I've published a compatibility library to standardize and backport the Html class across Android versions which includes more callbacks for elements and styling:

https://github.com/Pixplicity/HtmlCompat

Specifically, given this invocation:

Spanned fromHtml = HtmlCompat.fromHtml(context, source, 0,
        imageGetter, tagHandler, spanCallback);

you will be interested in implementing TagHandler for unknown tags, and SpanCallback for customizing the Spans that HtmlCompat creates from HTML.

Upvotes: -1

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