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thedude19
thedude19

Reputation: 2673

Rendering HTML in a WebView with custom CSS

My app is using JSoup to download the HTML of a message board page (let's say in this case it is a page containing the posts of a given thread). I'd like to take this HTML, strip out unwanted items, and apply custom CSS to style it to be 'mobile' in a WebView.

Should I inject the styles into the HTML as I process it (since I will be processing it anyway) or is there a good way to add a CSS file to my app's assets and simply refer to it. I figure the latter would be ideal, but unsure how to go about it.

I see hints in WebView's loadDataWithBaseURL that you can refer to local assets, but not sure how to utilize it.

Upvotes: 83

Views: 113328

Answers (7)

Nimesh Patel
Nimesh Patel

Reputation: 1496

You can Use Online Css link To set Style over existing content.

For That you have to load data in webview and enable JavaScript Support.

See Below Code:

   WebSettings webSettings=web_desc.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webSettings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");
    webSettings.setTextZoom(55);
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append("<HTML><HEAD><LINK href=\" http://yourStyleshitDomain.com/css/mbl-view-content.css\" type=\"text/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"/></HEAD><body>");
    sb.append(currentHomeContent.getDescription());
    sb.append("</body></HTML>");
    currentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", sb.toString(), "text/html", "utf-8", null);

Here Use StringBuilder to append String for Style.

sb.append("<HTML><HEAD><LINK href=\" http://yourStyleshitDomain.com/css/mbl-view-content.css\" type=\"text/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"/></HEAD><body>");
sb.append(currentHomeContent.getDescription());

Upvotes: 0

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 371

I assume that your style-sheet "style.css" is already located in the assets-folder

  1. load the web-page with jsoup:

    doc = Jsoup.connect("http://....").get();

  2. remove links to external style-sheets:

    // remove links to external style-sheets
doc.head().getElementsByTag("link").remove();

  3. set link to local style-sheet:

    // set link to local stylesheet
// <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
doc.head().appendElement("link").attr("rel", "stylesheet").attr("type", "text/css").attr("href", "style.css");

  4. make string from jsoup-doc/web-page:

    String htmldata = doc.outerHtml();

  5. display web-page in webview:

    WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/.", htmlData, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

Upvotes: 37

lejonl
lejonl

Reputation: 1483

If you have your CSS in the internal file storage you can use

//Get a reference to your webview
WebView web = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webby);

// Prepare some html, it is formated with css loaded from the file style.css
String webContent = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"style.css\"></head>"
                      + "<body><div class=\"running\">I am a text rendered with INDIGO</div></body></html>";

//get and format the path pointing to the internal storage
String internalFilePath = "file://" + getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/";

//load the html with the baseURL, all files relative to the baseURL will be found 
web.loadDataWithBaseURL(internalFilePath, webContent, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

Upvotes: 2

unorsk
unorsk

Reputation: 9429

You could use WebView.loadDataWithBaseURL

htmlData = "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"style.css\" />" + htmlData;
// lets assume we have /assets/style.css file
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", htmlData, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

And only after that WebView will be able to find and use css-files from the assets directory.

ps And, yes, if you load your html-file form the assets folder, you don't need to specify a base url.

Upvotes: 136

egore911
egore911

Reputation: 438

It's as simple as is:

WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/some.html");

And your some.html needs to contain something like:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

Upvotes: 9

daveyfaherty
daveyfaherty

Reputation: 4613

Is it possible to have all the content rendered in-page, in a given div? You could then reset the css based on the id, and work on from there.

Say you give your div id="ocon"

In your css, have a definition like:

#ocon *{background:none;padding:0;etc,etc,}

and you can set values to clear all css from applying to the content. After that, you can just use

#ocon ul{}

or whatever, further down the stylesheet, to apply new styles to the content.

Upvotes: 1

longhairedsi
longhairedsi

Reputation: 3136

here is the solution

Put your html and css in your /assets/ folder, then load the html file like so:

    WebView wv = new WebView(this);

    wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/yourHtml.html");

then in your html you can reference your css in the usual way

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />

Upvotes: 22

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