Replace HTML tags with String tags

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By that, i mean if a String contains HTML tags like <br></br> they must be converted to \n.

I tried this:

String formatted = android.text.Html.fromHtml(nonFormatted).toString();

But this seems to just remove all the HTML tags.

Input:

String nonFormatted = "<ul><li>Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS<\/li><li>2 MP Primary Camera<\/li><li>3-inch TFT Capacitive Touchscreen<\/li><li>850 MHz Processor<\/li><li>QWERTY Keypad<\/li><li>FM Radio<\/li><li>Wi-Fi Enabled<\/li><li>Expandable Storage Capacity of 32 GB<\/li><\/ul>";

Output after using android.text.Html.fromHtml(nonFormatted).toString();

String formatted = Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS2 MP Primary Camera3-inch TFT Capacitive Touchscreen850 MHz ProcessorQWERTY KeypadFM RadioWi-Fi EnabledExpandable Storage Capacity of 32 GB

But on the website it looks like this:

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I want my java String to be like the one in the image, instead of bullets, a new line character.

Thank You

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:24:46Z

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Because Html.fromHtml(string) just support some html tags like: br p div em b strong a u sup sub... but it doesn't support ul, li tags so you can try to display these tags using WebView or TagHandler. "TagHanlder is notified when HTML tags are encountered that the parser does not know how to interpret".These links will show you how to do that:

Show <ul> <li> in android textview

Html List tag not working in android textview. what can i do?

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Alécio Carvalho · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-31 13:52:04Z

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You need to make some parsing to properly replace the tags for whitespaces generically.. try exploring jsoup, it is a very powerful library that allows you to whitelist tags, clean up HTML, select and find tags, removing, etc.

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rthor · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-31 13:56:42Z

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A simple regular expression replace could sove this issue. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

answered Dec 31, 2012 at 13:56

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