I would like to display html formatted text on a UILabel
in IOS.
In Android, it has api like this .setText(Html.fromHtml(somestring));
Set TextView text from html-formatted string resource in XML
I would like to know what / if there is an equivalent in ios?
I search and find this thread:
How to show HTML text from API on the iPhone?
But it suggests using UIWebView
. I need to display html formatted string in each table cell, so I think have 1 webview
per row seems a bit heavy.
Is that any other alternative?
Thank you.
Swift 3.0
do {
let attrStr = try NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".data(using: String.Encoding.unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
} catch let error {
}
for Swift 2.0:
var attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
You could try an attributed string:
var attrStr = NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true),
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil,
error: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
Swift 4
import UIKit
let htmlString = "<html><body> Some <b>html</b> string </body></html>"
// works even without <html><body> </body></html> tags, BTW
let data = htmlString.data(using: String.Encoding.unicode)! // mind "!"
let attrStr = try? NSAttributedString( // do catch
data: data,
options: [NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html],
documentAttributes: nil)
// suppose we have an UILabel, but any element with NSAttributedString will do
label.attributedText = attrStr
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.