Display HTML format First we will present below what are the supported tags for a textView and what are not supported. You can skip this section if you are already familiar with these or you want to jump directly into action :) Supported tags Unsupported tags <a href="..."> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br> <cite> <del> <dfn>…
Maybe you need to add links to a TextView on Android but you don't want to use Linkify for some reasons and you also want that link to be opened when the user taps it. Here is a simple solution:
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yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml( "Text with a " + "<a href=\"http://www.myandroidsolutions.com/\">link to My Android Solutions</a> ")); // this is important as well !! yourTextView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance()); |
Note that I used the fromHtml() method from the Html class to generate a Spanned…