Tags Supported by Html.fromHtml()

Here are a few tips:

Links in TextViews

The simplest way to add links to TextView is to use the android:autoLink attribute. However, this only allows you to link visible URIs in the text and can sometimes lead to undesired situations (I had an app that was detecting the copyright dates "2009-2011" as a phone number). By using the <a> tag, you can create links with any text that leads to any URI:

<string name="my_site"><a href="http://idunnolol.com">My Website</a></string>


There's only one catch: when you try to use this in a TextView, it won't be clickable unless you set the movement method in code:

TextView myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.my_textview);
myTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());


Dynamic Html

All of the above examples have been with static text - that is, when the TextView's android:text attribute is set in XML from a string resource. What if you want to set a TextView's string resource in code? This is especially important when you use string formatting (which I'm a big fan of).

Android discusses this already, but for posterity I'll repeat the process here:

1. HTML-escape the string resource:

<string name="loud">Loud text here: &lt;b>%s&lt;/b></string>


2. Use Html.fromHtml() to dynamically create a Spanned that a TextView can be styled with:

Spanned spanned = Html.fromHtml(context.getString(R.string.loud, "this is loud"));
myTextView.setText(spanned);


Handling Custom Tags

So far so good, but I ran into a problem the other day: while the <strike> tag works if it's linked as a static string, it doesn't work when using Html.fromHtml(). I looked through the source code and discovered that Html.fromHtml() handles a different set of tags from static resources. Luckily, there's a way to handle tags that Html.fromHtml() doesn't: the TagHandler interface.

It's a little complex, but here's one possible solution for how to handle the <strike> tag. (My own solution differed a bit, but the essentials are the same.)

Tags Supported in String Resources

Tags in static string resources are parsed by android.content.res.StringBlock, which is a hidden class. I've looked through the class and determined which tags are supported:

  • <a> (supports attributes "href")
  • <annotation>
  • <b>
  • <big>
  • <font> (supports attributes "height", "size", "fgcolor" and "bicolor", as integers)
  • <i>
  • <li>
  • <marquee>
  • <small>
  • <strike>
  • <sub>
  • <sup>
  • <tt>
  • <u>


Tags Supported by Html.fromHtml()

For some reason, Html.fromHtml() handles a different set of of tags than static text supports. Here's a list of the tags (gleaned from Html.java's source code):

  • <a> (supports attribute "href")
  • <b>
  • <big>
  • <blockquote>
  • <br>
  • <cite>
  • <dfn>
  • <div>
  • <em>
  • <font> (supports attributes "color" and "face")
  • <i>
  • <img> (supports attribute "src". Note: you have to include an ImageGetter to handle retrieving a Drawable for this tag)
  • <p>
  • <small>
  • <strong>
  • <sub>
  • <sup>
  • <tt>
  • <u>


The font "color" attribute supports some color names (along with the normal integer-based color scheme):

  • aqua
  • black
  • blue
  • fuchsia
  • green
  • grey
  • lime
  • maroon
  • navy
  • olive
  • purple
  • red
  • silver
  • teal
  • white
  • yellow
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