I am trying to place html into a TextView. Everything works perfectly, this is my code.
String htmlTxt = "<p>Hellllo</p>"; // the html is form an API
Spanned html = Html.fromHtml(htmlTxt);
myTextView.setText(html);
This sets my TextView with the correct html. But my problem is, having a
tag in the html, the result text that goes into the TextView has a "\n" at the end, so it pushes my TextView's height higher than it should be.
Since its a Spanned variable, I can't apply regex replace to remove the "\n", and if I was to convert it into a string, then apply regex, I lose the functionality of having html anchors to work properly.
Does anyone know any solutions to remove the ending linebreak(s) from a "Spanned" variable?
Nice answer @Christine. I wrote a similar function to remove trailing whitespace from a CharSequence this afternoon:
/** Trims trailing whitespace. Removes any of these characters:
* 0009, HORIZONTAL TABULATION
* 000A, LINE FEED
* 000B, VERTICAL TABULATION
* 000C, FORM FEED
* 000D, CARRIAGE RETURN
* 001C, FILE SEPARATOR
* 001D, GROUP SEPARATOR
* 001E, RECORD SEPARATOR
* 001F, UNIT SEPARATOR
* @return "" if source is null, otherwise string with all trailing whitespace removed
*/
public static CharSequence trimTrailingWhitespace(CharSequence source) {
if(source == null)
return "";
int i = source.length();
// loop back to the first non-whitespace character
while(--i >= 0 && Character.isWhitespace(source.charAt(i))) {
}
return source.subSequence(0, i+1);
}
The spannable is a CharSequence, which you can manipulate.
This works:
myTextView.setText(noTrailingwhiteLines(html));
private CharSequence noTrailingwhiteLines(CharSequence text) {
while (text.charAt(text.length() - 1) == '\n') {
text = text.subSequence(0, text.length() - 1);
}
return text;
}
You can try this:
Spanned htmlDescription = Html.fromHtml(textWithHtml);
String descriptionWithOutExtraSpace = new String(htmlDescription.toString()).trim();
textView.setText(htmlDescription.subSequence(0, descriptionWithOutExtraSpace.length()));
you can use this lines ... totally works ;)
i know your problem solved but maybe some one find this useful .
try{
string= replceLast(string,"<p dir=\"ltr\">", "");
string=replceLast(string,"</p>", "");
}catch (Exception e) {}
and here is replaceLast ...
public String replceLast(String yourString, String frist,String second)
{
StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(yourString);
b.replace(yourString.lastIndexOf(frist), yourString.lastIndexOf(frist)+frist.length(),second );
return b.toString();
}