Can underline words in TextView text

Question

Is there possibility in android to provide TextView some text in Java code with setText(text) function with basic tags like and to make marked words underlined ?

Answer 1

You can use UnderlineSpan from SpannableString class:

SpannableString content = new SpannableString(<your text>);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);

Then just use textView.setText(content);

Answer 2

Yes, you can, use the Html.fromhtml() method:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("this is <u>underlined</u> text"));

Answer 3

Define a string as:

<resources>
    <string name="your_string">This is an <u>underline</u> text demo for TextView.</string>
</resources>

Answer 4

tobeunderlined= <u>some text here which is to be underlined</u> 

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("some string"+tobeunderlined+"somestring"));

Answer 5

You can use pretty much all HTML tags on TextView. See an example here.