I am attempting to render an html string within an EditText control. Bold, italic, and underline html renders correctly, however strike through is just ignored.
Here is the EditText control, nothing fancy:
<EditText
android:id="@+id/rich_text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="@style/Widget.EditText"
android:gravity="top"
android:inputType="textFilter|textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions"
android:minLines="8"
android:textStyle="normal" />
And here is the code that is setting the html in the EditText control:
var textView = view.FindViewById<EditText> (Resource.Id.rich_text);
var html = "<b>bold test</b> <u>underline test</u> <i>italic test</i> <strike>strike test 1</strike> <del>strike test 2</del> <s>strike test 3</s>";
textView.TextFormatted = Html.FromHtml (html);
Here is a screenshot of how it displays, notice how the strike through tests aren't working.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Here is how I solved the issue. I created an implemented of ITagHandler:
public class HtmlTagHandler : Object, Html.ITagHandler {
public void HandleTag (bool opening, string tag, IEditable output, IXMLReader xmlReader) {
if (tag == "strike" || tag == "s" || tag == "del") {
var text = output as SpannableStringBuilder;
if (opening)
Start (text, new Strike ());
else
End (text, Class.FromType (typeof(Strike)), new StrikethroughSpan ());
}
}
private static void Start (SpannableStringBuilder text, Object mark) {
var length = text.Length ();
text.SetSpan (mark, length, length, SpanTypes.MarkMark);
}
private static void End (SpannableStringBuilder text, Class kind, Object newSpan) {
var length = text.Length ();
var span = GetLast (text, kind);
var where = text.GetSpanStart (span);
text.RemoveSpan (span);
if (where != length)
text.SetSpan (newSpan, where, length, SpanTypes.ExclusiveExclusive);
}
private static Object GetLast (ISpanned text, Class kind) {
var length = text.Length ();
var spans = text.GetSpans (0, length, kind);
return spans.Length > 0 ? spans.Last () : null;
}
}
class Strike : Object {
}
This can be called like so:
public static ISpanned ToHtml (this string html) {
return Html.FromHtml (html ?? string.Empty, null, new HtmlTagHandler ());
}
And here is how it looks:
<strike>
is not supported. I can't find an official documentation with list of all supported HTML tags. However, if you look at the source code you won't find support there.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/core/java/android/text/Html.java
What I can gather the following tags are supported:
Tags Format
b, strong Bold
i, em, cite, dfn Italics
u Underline
sub Subtext
sup Supertext
big Big
small Small
tt Monospace
h1 … h6 Headlines
img Image
font Font face and color
blockquote For longer quotes
a Link
div, p Paragraph
br Linefeed