Parsing HTML into NSAttributedText - how to set font?

Swift 2 version, based on the answer given by Javier Querol

extension UILabel {
    func setHTMLFromString(text: String) {
        let modifiedFont = NSString(format:"<span style=\"font-family: \(self.font!.fontName); font-size: \(self.font!.pointSize)\">%@</span>", text) as String

        let attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
            data: modifiedFont.dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
            options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: NSUTF8StringEncoding],
            documentAttributes: nil)

        self.attributedText = attrStr
    }
}

Swift 3.0 and iOS 9+

extension UILabel {
    func setHTMLFromString(htmlText: String) {
        let modifiedFont = String(format:"<span style=\"font-family: '-apple-system', 'HelveticaNeue'; font-size: \(self.font!.pointSize)\">%@</span>", htmlText)

        let attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
            data: modifiedFont.data(using: .unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
            options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue],
            documentAttributes: nil)

        self.attributedText = attrStr
    }
}

Swift 5 and iOS 11+

extension UILabel {
    func setHTMLFromString(htmlText: String) {
        let modifiedFont = String(format:"<span style=\"font-family: '-apple-system', 'HelveticaNeue'; font-size: \(self.font!.pointSize)\">%@</span>", htmlText)

        let attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
            data: modifiedFont.data(using: .unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
            options: [.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html, .characterEncoding:String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue],
            documentAttributes: nil)

        self.attributedText = attrStr
    }
}

#import "UILabel+HTML.h"

@implementation UILabel (HTML)

- (void)jaq_setHTMLFromString:(NSString *)string {

    string = [string stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<style>body{font-family: '%@'; font-size:%fpx;}</style>",
                                              self.font.fontName,
                                              self.font.pointSize]];
    self.attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:[string dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]
                                                           options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
                                                                     NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding)}
                                                documentAttributes:nil
                                                             error:nil];
}


@end

This way you don't need to specify which font you want, it will take the label font and size.

I actually found a working solution to this problem:

Changing the font in your HTML response string before it gets parsed.

NSString *aux = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<span style=\"font-family: YOUR_FONT_NAME; font-size: SIZE\">%@</span>", htmlResponse];

Example:

NSString *aux = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<span style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeue-Thin; font-size: 17\">%@</span>", [response objectForKey:@"content"]];

Swift version:

let aux = "<span style=\"font-family: YOUR_FONT_NAME; font-size: SIZE\">\(htmlResponse)</span>"

Figured it out. Bit of a bear, and maybe not the best answer.

This code will go through all the font changes. I know that it is using "Times New Roman" and "Times New Roman BoldMT" for the fonts. But regardless, this will find the bold fonts and let me reset them. I can also reset the size while I'm at it.

I honestly hope/think there is a way to set this up at parse time, but I can't find it if there is.

    NSRange range = (NSRange){0,[str length]};
    [str enumerateAttribute:NSFontAttributeName inRange:range options:NSAttributedStringEnumerationLongestEffectiveRangeNotRequired usingBlock:^(id value, NSRange range, BOOL *stop) {
        UIFont* currentFont = value;
        UIFont *replacementFont = nil;

        if ([currentFont.fontName rangeOfString:@"bold" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch].location != NSNotFound) {
            replacementFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold" size:25.0f];
        } else {
            replacementFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Thin" size:25.0f];
        }

        [str addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:replacementFont range:range];
    }];