Text without css tags in Android

Question

I have an email body and it has html,css tags and I am trying to retrieve only the body text in Android.

I used;

String.valueOf(Html.fromHtml(body);

and that gave me the text with css tags. What should I do for retrieve only the text? Result is holding in a String

Normally (when I first receive body );

<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Tahoma
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>
TEXTONE<div>TEXTTWO</div>                     </div></body>
</html>

After String.valueOf(Html.fromHtml(body);

<!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } -->

TEXTONE
TEXTTWO

I just want to receive TEXTONE and TEXTTWO

Can you please post HTML example?

Andrejs Cainikovs
– Andrejs Cainikovs

2012-04-23 19:32:50 +00:00
Commented Apr 23, 2012 at 19:32 — Andrejs Cainikovs
– Andrejs Cainikovs, Commented Apr 23, 2012 at 19:32
I edit the Html in the question

Merve Gül
– Merve Gül

2012-04-23 20:00:31 +00:00
Commented Apr 23, 2012 at 20:00 — Merve Gül
– Merve Gül, Commented Apr 23, 2012 at 20:00

Andrejs Cainikovs · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-23 20:26:22Z

1

fromHtml() supports only common HTML tags. HTML comments are not considered as tags, and are ignored. List of the tags, supported by fromHtml() can be found here.

Following code should fix your problem:

s = String.valueOf(Html.fromHtml(body);
s = s.replaceAll("(?s)<!--.*?-->", "");

answered Apr 23, 2012 at 20:26

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3 Comments

Merve Gül Over a year ago

"Android does not support stripping HTML comments via fromHtml()." I can strip my text from html with this codeline

Andrejs Cainikovs Over a year ago

You can your strip html tags, but not comments. This -  - is the HTML comment.

Andrejs Cainikovs Over a year ago

And yes, stripping = deleting.

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