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devunwired
devunwired

Reputation: 63293

Android WebView: Change Auto-Link Display

Does anyone know of a way to modify the visual style of how the WebView displays auto-linked text (phone numbers, addresses, etc.)? Or more specifically, can I make the links that WebView detects look like standard clickable hyperlinks? For example,

webView.loadData("My phone number is 3035555555", "text/html", "utf-8");

This loads the text into the WebView and it is clickable, but it just looks like the rest of the body text. I also tried putting the text into an HTML file in assets and doing

webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/Test.html");

But that yielded the same result. Is there something in WebSettings or WebViewClient that controls this behavior I'm missing?

Cheers.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2764

Answers (2)

dicenice
dicenice

Reputation: 261

Try this.....

String header = "< ?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>";
String data = "< html>< body>< a href='tel:555-5599'>508-776-5510
" "< /body>< /html>";
mWebView.loadData(header+data,  "text/html", "UTF-8");

If you are loading a string of html texts into webView. Then you can use

mWebView.loadData(header+data, "text/html", "UTF-8");

If you have a html file. Then you can use

webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/mypage.html"):

Note: Dont forget to put your html file in your assets folder.

Cheers!!! :D

Upvotes: 0

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 829

You could do this to get what your looking for.

String header = "< ?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>";
String data = "< html>< body>< a href='tel:555-5599'>508-776-5510
"
            "< /body>< /html>";



mWebView.loadData(header+data,  "text/html", "UTF-8");

Upvotes: 1

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