Display html text in uitextview
IosIphoneUitextviewIos Problem Overview
How can I display HTML text in textview?
For example,
string <h1>Krupal testing <span style="font-weight:
bold;">Customer WYWO</span></h1>
Suppose text is bold so it display in textview as bold string but I want display normal text. Is this possible in the iPhone SDK?
Ios Solutions
Solution 1 - Ios
Use following block of code for ios 7+.
NSString *htmlString = @"<h1>Header</h1><h2>Subheader</h2><p>Some <em>text</em></p><img src='http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/files/2010/11/mickey_mouse-1097.jpg' width=70 height=100 />";
NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc]
initWithData: [htmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]
options: @{ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType }
documentAttributes: nil
error: nil
];
textView.attributedText = attributedString;
Solution 2 - Ios
For Swift 4, Swift 4.2: and Swift 5
let htmlString = """
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color : rgb(230, 230, 230);
font-family : 'Arial';
text-decoration : none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A title</h1>
<p>A paragraph</p>
<b>bold text</b>
</body>
</html>
"""
let htmlData = NSString(string: htmlString).data(using: String.Encoding.unicode.rawValue)
let options = [NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html]
let attributedString = try! NSAttributedString(data: htmlData!, options: options, documentAttributes: nil)
textView.attributedText = attributedString
For Swift 3:
let htmlString = """
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color : rgb(230, 230, 230);
font-family : 'Arial';
text-decoration : none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>A title</h1>
<p>A paragraph</p>
<b>bold text</b>
</body>
</html>
"""
let htmlData = NSString(string: htmlString).data(using: String.Encoding.unicode.rawValue)
let attributedString = try! NSAttributedString(data: htmlData!, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType], documentAttributes: nil)
textView.attributedText = attributedString
Solution 3 - Ios
Use a UIWebView on iOS 5-.
On iOS 6+ you can use UITextView.attributedString
, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/20996085 for how.
There's also an undocumented -[UITextView setContentToHTMLString:]
method. Do not use this if you want to submit to AppStore.
Solution 4 - Ios
BHUPI's answer is correct, but if you would like to combine your custom font from UILabel or UITextView with HTML content, you need to correct your html a bit:
NSString *htmlString = @"<b>Bold</b><br><i>Italic</i><p> <del>Deleted</del><p>List<ul><li>Coffee</li><li type='square'>Tea</li></ul><br><a href='URL'>Link </a>";
htmlString = [htmlString stringByAppendingString:@"<style>body{font-family:'YOUR_FONT_HERE'; font-size:'SIZE';}</style>"];
/*Example:
htmlString = [htmlString stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<style>body{font-family: '%@'; font-size:%fpx;}</style>",_myLabel.font.fontName,_myLabel.font.pointSize]];
*/
NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc]
initWithData: [htmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]
options: @{ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType }
documentAttributes: nil
error: nil
];
textView.attributedText = attributedString;
Solution 5 - Ios
You can have a look the OHAttributedLabel classes, I used these to overcome this kind of problem with my textField. In this they have overridden the drawRect method to obtain the required style.
Solution 6 - Ios
My first response was made before iOS 7 introduced explicit support for displaying attributed strings in common controls. You may now set attributedText
of UITextView
to an NSAttributedString
created from HTML content using:
-(id)initWithData:(NSData *)data options:(NSDictionary *)options documentAttributes:(NSDictionary **)dict error:(NSError **)error
- initWithData:options:documentAttributes:error: (Apple Doc)
Original answer, preserved for history:
Unless you use a UIWebView
, your solution will rely directly on CoreText
. As ElanthiraiyanS points out, some open source projects have emerged to simplify rich text rendering. I would recommend NSAttributedString-Additions-For-HTML (Edit: the project has been supplanted DTCoreText), which features classes to generate and display attributed strings from HTML.
Solution 7 - Ios
Answer has fitted to me that from BHUPI.
The code transfer to swift as below:
Pay attention "allowLossyConversion: false"
if you set the value to true, it will show pure text.
let theString = "<h1>H1 title</h1><b>Logo</b><img src='http://www.aver.com/Images/Shared/logo-color.png'><br>~end~"
let theAttributedString = try! NSAttributedString(data: theString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: false)!,
options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
UITextView_Message.attributedText = theAttributedString
Solution 8 - Ios
For Swift3
let theString = "<h1>H1 title</h1><b>Logo</b><img src='http://www.aver.com/Images/Shared/logo-color.png'><br>~end~"
let theAttributedString = try! NSAttributedString(data: theString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: false)!,
options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
UITextView_Message.attributedText = theAttributedString
Solution 9 - Ios
For some cases UIWebView is a good solution. Because:
- it displays tables, images, other files
- it's fast (comparing with NSAttributedString: NSHTMLTextDocumentType)
- it's out of the box
Using NSAttributedString can lead to crashes, if html is complex or contains tables (so example)
For loading text to web view you can use the following snippet (just example):
func loadHTMLText(_ text: String?, font: UIFont) {
let fontSize = font.pointSize * UIScreen.screens[0].scale
let html = """
<html><body><span style=\"font-family: \(font.fontName); font-size: \(fontSize)\; color: #112233">\(text ?? "")</span></body></html>
"""
self.loadHTMLString(html, baseURL: nil)
}
Solution 10 - Ios
You can also use one more way. Three20 library offers a method through which we can construct a styled textView. You can get the library here: http://github.com/facebook/three20/
The class TTStyledTextLabel has a method called textFromXHTML: I guess this would serve the purpose. But it would be possible in readonly mode. I don't think it will allow to write or edit HTML content.
There is also a question which can help you regarding this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2261654/html-string-content-for-uilabel-and-textview
I hope its helpful.
Solution 11 - Ios
NSDoc save the text file in a string to an html file then simultaneously load it into a webview that is in the same place as your UITextView..