Android: Html.fromHtml() method weird issue

Question

I am facing a weird issue:

My source string for Html.fromHtml() is as follows:

<strong>Terrible experience with Nikko hotel</strong><br />It was not easy to cancel booking. I called to cancel books, but they still chraged us two full days. A reason was we were late ten minutes in calling to cancel. They explained us very kindly that I can only cancel the first day. But they charged after then.\nSick."

which is retrieved from a json response

Now, when I display it using setText as follows:

commentbox.setText(Html.fromHtml(cmnt.getString("cmnt")));

but the output which i see is as follows:

enter image description here

Why is it giving me italic text instead of bold?

Try to increase the width of the textview so your strong text to fit in 1 line and see what's happening :) — Aurelian Cotuna
– Aurelian Cotuna, Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 7:31
width is wrapcontent, that shouldnt be an issue , its happening at other places too :( — Pratik Bhat
– Pratik Bhat, Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 7:34
hm... remove the strong and replace it with tags and see what's happening :) — Aurelian Cotuna
– Aurelian Cotuna, Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 7:38
sadly , its a json response from a server, can try replacing with or ..thanks — Pratik Bhat
– Pratik Bhat, Commented Nov 25, 2011 at 7:41
Check for the supported tags list javatechig.com/2013/04/07/how-to-display-html-in-android-view — Nilanchala
– Nilanchala, Commented Apr 7, 2013 at 20:53

Hanry · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-25 07:44:39Z

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This can be a LIMITATION as described here:

the Html.fromHtml() method in Android that creates a SpannedString from HTML source flips  and  tags, so what you might be used to seeing in boldface turns into italics and vice-versa. This should only be an issue if you are displayng the generated HTML in a TextView — WebView in particular should behave more normally.

edited Nov 25, 2011 at 7:44

answered Nov 25, 2011 at 7:36

Hanry

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2 Comments

Hanry Over a year ago

i hv found an issue here also you can use instead

Pratik Bhat Over a year ago

thanks, wil hav to check for tags and then reverse it before using fromHtml()

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