Android app not rendering html tags very well

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This is what i am getting from web service in string.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is instructor&amp;#39;s reply to the guest&amp;#39;s MDB message&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

This is how i am setting it to text view

String Reply = parent.getString(TAG_ReplyMessage);
TextView ReplyTextView= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.reply_txt);
ReplyTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(Reply));

but app shows information with  and  tags.

Whereas it should render those tags, not to display it's html.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

zeroDivider · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-07 13:13:30Z

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It may help you I was also getting same issue in my project and this worked for me.may be it will help you:

String reply = parent.getString(TAG_ReplyMessage);
TextView ReplyTextView = findViewById(R.id.reply_txt);
String htmltext = Html.fromHtml(reply).toString();
ReplyTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmltext));

edited Feb 7, 2020 at 13:13

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Moonbloom · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 11:32:07Z

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Android does not support all HTML tags.

This is a, albeit a bit old, list of supported HTML tags:
http://www.grokkingandroid.com/android-quick-tip-formatting-text-with-html-fromhtml/

Or you could look through the sources and see which are supported:
http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/5.1.1_r1/android/text/Html.java#Html

According to those lists,  is not supported. So it can't parse anything within .

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 11:32

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Anton Balaniuc · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 11:33:17Z

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&#39; remove amp; part. Html code for ' single quote is just '

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Chintan Soni · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 11:45:16Z

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You can write those tags directly between <![CDATA[...]]> in strings.xml.

Example:

<string name="type"><![CDATA[Type:<B> %s</B>]]></string>

In Java:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.type, "Sports")));

Output:

Type: Sports

Update:

If string itself is like:

String data = "&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is instructor&amp;#39;s reply to the guest&amp;#39;s MDB message&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;";

Then, you can try as below:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(Html.fromHtml(data).toString()));

edited Feb 22, 2017 at 11:45

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 11:29

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Anjum Over a year ago

Well i am getting that string from web service. why i need to add it to strings.xml

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