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Hassan Mokdad
Hassan Mokdad

Reputation: 5892

Make EditText accept and display HTML formatted text

Does any one know how to make an EditText control shows html formatted text, and even writes HTML formatted text, to act like an HTML Edit Box,

Upvotes: 17

Views: 18437

Answers (3)

sat
sat

Reputation: 41076

Try using Html.fromHtml(text) to display HTML formatted text in EditText.

But Html class can recognize only few tags, its not comprehensive. You can check this blog to check which all tags are supported as of now.

Upvotes: 16

Ashish Saini
Ashish Saini

Reputation: 2318

String xyz="this <br>is<br> my<br> testing <br>string ";
 String formattedString =Html.fromHtml(xyz);

Upvotes: 1

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 54705

To show HTML code in an EditText you need to convert it to Spanned using Html.fromHtml(). Only a small HTML tag subset can be used in this method. You can set a Spanned as a text of an EditText. Then you can edit it and convert it back using Html.toHtml().

Upvotes: 18

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