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Gunnar Lium
Gunnar Lium

Reputation: 6073

How can I make links in fromHTML clickable? (Android)

This seems like a trivial problem, but it has me kind of stumped. I want to load an HTML string using Html.fromHtml(), and have any links in the string to be clickable and open in the browser.

Basic example:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));

With this snippet, the text is formatted as if it were a link (blue, underlined), but it's not clickable. I tried Linkify, but it only seems to work with links that are not HTML-based.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 75

Views: 35154

Answers (5)

M.Ganji
M.Ganji

Reputation: 876

String data="MyTest";

textView.setText(data);
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(data));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
textView.setLinksClickable(true);

Upvotes: 1

Charlie Tabone
Charlie Tabone

Reputation: 332

As mentioned in other answers, a way forward is to use:

xtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

However, this won't work if you have ANY android:autoLink value set, not just 'web' as other comments seem to suggest. So that means you can use this solution to linkify URLs at the expense of having phone, email and maps being disabled/unlinked.

Upvotes: 27

Caye
Caye

Reputation: 329

The javadoc of the LinkMovementMethod says that it

Supports clicking on links with DPad Center or Enter.

So it makes sense that works that way.

And confirmed, with 4.2.2 works like charm with just the 

textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Upvotes: 9

Umakant Patil
Umakant Patil

Reputation: 2308

It should be this way:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS);
textView.setLinksClickable(true);

in XML should be

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/txtview"
    android:autoLink="web"
    android:linksClickable="true"
    />

Upvotes: 4

Gunnar Lium
Gunnar Lium

Reputation: 6073

As I assumed, the solution was trivial:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

The second line somehow activates the link behavior, although I'm not quite sure how. The same question is addressed over at Google Code.

Upvotes: 167

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