How to style text in a string array?

Question

I have a string array and was trying to style certain parts of the text with tags like < b>, < i>, ... but it doesn't work. The array looks like this:

<resources>
    <array name="hour1">                             
            <item>blabla\n<b>blabla</b></item>
</array>

The text is displayed in the textview like this:

tTitel.setText(Html.fromHtml(Text[ii]));

I tried it without Html.fromHtml too but this had no effect. The styling tags do work if i use them directly in the code, like:

tTitel.setText(Html.fromHtml("blabla<b>blabla</b>");

Any ideas how to style the text in an array??

Cheers, Chris

What exactly is Text[ii] in the above line? Have you tried accessing it directly via R.java? — Anthony Forloney
– Anthony Forloney, Commented Feb 15, 2010 at 16:13
It's an array that contains one item of the string array "hour1". I need that because I split the text and then do different things with it based on what pattern made it split. — ChristianS
– ChristianS, Commented Feb 15, 2010 at 17:34

CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-15 17:09:34Z

3

You need to escape your HTML tags when they are included in an XML resource document. Instead of:

<b>

use:

&lt;b&gt;

At least, that works for ordinary string resources. I assume it works for string arrays.

answered Feb 15, 2010 at 17:09

CommonsWare

1.0m195 gold badges2.4k silver badges2.7k bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

ChristianS Over a year ago

Thanks a lot! This works perfectly fine! Using < b> in ordinary string resources without escaping it works for me, too. That's why I hadn't thought of that. Thanks again!

CommonsWare Over a year ago

Really? That's interesting. The last time I tried embedding un-escaped HTML in string resources, it failed. I haven't tried in over a year, though, so perhaps that was fixed and the fix didn't ripple through to string-array resources.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to style text in a string array?

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related