Using multiple text colors in Android's textview [ Html.fromhtml() ] [duplicate]

Question

In one textview I'm trying to separate text stylings on different words.

So far I have:

textview.setText(Html.fromHtml("<i><small><font color=\"c5c5c5\">" + "Competitor ID: " + "</font></small></i>" + "<font color=\"47a842\">" + compID + "</font>"));

Basically, I'm saying I want "Competitor ID:" to be italic, small, and grey.

And I want that string compID to be normal sized, not italic, and green.

The italic and small portions of the code work perfectly, but for some reason, the entire text view has grey text, rather than just "Competitor ID:".

Any ideas?

Check out for working example javatechig.com/2013/04/07/how-to-display-html-in-android-view — Nilanchala
– Nilanchala, Commented Apr 7, 2013 at 20:46

Lawrence Gimenez · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-01 02:59:23Z

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textview.setText(Html.fromHtml("<i><small><font color=\"#c5c5c5\">" + "Competitor ID: " + "</font></small></i>" + "<font color=\"#47a842\">" + compID + "</font>"));

Try the above.

answered May 1, 2012 at 2:59

Lawrence Gimenez

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Muhammad Babar Over a year ago

@userIsAMonkey +1 great work but why are you using escape sequences in font color if it is in html

Evren Ozturk Over a year ago

For peoples having issues; using color names doesn't work, I think you have to use color codes. wrong:<font color=\"#white\"> right :<font color=\"#f1f1f1\">

TWiStErRob Over a year ago

@MuhammadBabar the escape is because this is Java source code. To include a " in a Java String you have to escape it. After Java compiles this it'll look like normal HTML code and will be parsed as such by fromHtml.

aizaz · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-10 08:50:57Z

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Try using one of these grey hex code values instead.

gray1 #030303   
gray2 #050505  
gray3 #080808     
gray4 #0A0A0A   
gray5 #0D0D0D

. Also try to control the text color inside the xml textview properties using the above codes. Hope this helps

edited May 10, 2013 at 8:50

aizaz

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answered May 1, 2012 at 2:56

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