I have some HTML data, which contains headings, paragraphs , images and lists tags.
Is there a way to display this data in one UITextView
or UILabel
?
I have some HTML data, which contains headings, paragraphs , images and lists tags.
Is there a way to display this data in one UITextView
or UILabel
?
For Swift 4:
extension String {
var htmlToAttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard let data = data(using: .utf8) else { return NSAttributedString() }
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data, options: [.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html, .characterEncoding:String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch {
return NSAttributedString()
}
}
var htmlToString: String {
return htmlToAttributedString?.string ?? ""
}
}
Then, whenever you want to put HTML text in a UITextView use:
textView.attributedText = htmlText.htmlToAttributedString
Here is a Swift 3 version:
private func getHtmlLabel(text: String) -> UILabel {
let label = UILabel()
label.numberOfLines = 0
label.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
label.attributedString = stringFromHtml(string: text)
return label
}
private func stringFromHtml(string: String) -> NSAttributedString? {
do {
let data = string.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: true)
if let d = data {
let str = try NSAttributedString(data: d,
options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
return str
}
} catch {
}
return nil
}
I found issues with some of the other answers here and it took me a bit to get this right. I set the line break mode and number of lines so that the label sized appropriately when the HTML spanned multiple lines.
Add this extension to convert your html code to a regular string:
extension String {
var html2AttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard
let data = dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
else { return nil }
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType,NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute:NSUTF8StringEncoding], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
return nil
}
}
var html2String: String {
return html2AttributedString?.string ?? ""
}
}
And then you show your String inside an UITextView Or UILabel
textView.text = yourString.html2String
or
label.text = yourString.html2String
Swift 3.0
var attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".data(using: String.Encoding.unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
I had problems to change attributes of text after that, and I could see others asking why...
So best answer is to use extension with NSMutableAttributedString instead:
extension String {
var htmlToAttributedString: NSMutableAttributedString? {
guard let data = data(using: .utf8) else { return nil }
do {
return try NSMutableAttributedString(data: data,
options: [.documentType: NSMutableAttributedString.DocumentType.html,
.characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue],
documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
return nil
}
}
}
And then you can use it this way:
if let labelTextFormatted = text.htmlToAttributedString {
let textAttributes = [
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 13)
] as [NSAttributedStringKey: Any]
labelTextFormatted.addAttributes(textAttributes, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: labelTextFormatted.length))
self.contentText.attributedText = labelTextFormatted
}
I'm using this:
extension UILabel {
func setHTML(html: String) {
do {
let attributedString: NSAttributedString = try NSAttributedString(data: html.data(using: .utf8)!, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute : NSHTMLTextDocumentType], documentAttributes: nil)
self.attributedText = attributedString
} catch {
self.text = html
}
}
}
Swift 3
extension String {
var html2AttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard
let data = data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)
else { return nil }
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType,NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute:String.Encoding.utf8], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
return nil
}
}
var html2String: String {
return html2AttributedString?.string ?? ""
}
}
Try this:
let label : UILable! = String.stringFromHTML("html String")
func stringFromHTML( string: String?) -> String
{
do{
let str = try NSAttributedString(data:string!.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true
)!, options:[NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: NSNumber(unsignedLong: NSUTF8StringEncoding)], documentAttributes: nil)
return str.string
} catch
{
print("html error\n",error)
}
return ""
}
Hope its helpful.
If you want HTML, with images and a list, this isn't support by UILabel. However, I've found YYText does the trick.
Display images and text paragraphs is not possible in a UITextView
or UILabel
, to this, you must use a UIWebView
.
Just add the item in the storyboard, link to your code, and call it to load the URL.
OBJ-C
NSString *fullURL = @"http://conecode.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:fullURL];
NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[_viewWeb loadRequest:requestObj];
Swift
let url = NSURL (string: "http://www.sourcefreeze.com");
let requestObj = NSURLRequest(URL: url!);
viewWeb.loadRequest(requestObj);
Step by step tutorial. http://sourcefreeze.com/uiwebview-example-using-swift-in-ios/
Thx for the above answer here is Swift 4.2
extension String {
var htmlToAttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard
let data = self.data(using: .utf8)
else { return nil }
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data, options: [
NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html,
NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue
], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch let error as NSError {
print(error.localizedDescription)
return nil
}
}
var htmlToString: String {
return htmlToAttributedString?.string ?? ""
}
}
Swift 5
extension String {
func htmlAttributedString() -> NSAttributedString? {
guard let data = self.data(using: String.Encoding.utf16, allowLossyConversion: false) else { return nil }
guard let html = try? NSMutableAttributedString(
data: data,
options: [NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html],
documentAttributes: nil) else { return nil }
return html
}
}
Call:
myLabel.attributedText = "myString".htmlAttributedString()
IF YOU HAVE A STRING WITH HTML CODE INSIDE YOU CAN USE:
extension String {
var utfData: Data? {
return self.data(using: .utf8)
}
var htmlAttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard let data = self.utfData else {
return nil
}
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data,
options: [
.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html,
.characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue
], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch {
print(error.localizedDescription)
return nil
}
}
var htmlString: String {
return htmlAttributedString?.string ?? self
}
}
AND IN YOUR CODE YOU USE:
label.text = "something".htmlString