How to display html formatted text in ios label
Swift 3.0
do {
let attrStr = try NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".data(using: String.Encoding.unicode, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
} catch let error {
}
for Swift 2.0:
var attrStr = try! NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)!,
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
Swift 4
import UIKit
let htmlString = "<html><body> Some <b>html</b> string </body></html>"
// works even without <html><body> </body></html> tags, BTW
let data = htmlString.data(using: String.Encoding.unicode)! // mind "!"
let attrStr = try? NSAttributedString( // do catch
data: data,
options: [NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html],
documentAttributes: nil)
// suppose we have an UILabel, but any element with NSAttributedString will do
label.attributedText = attrStr
Supplement: controlling the font of resulting formatted string
To use properly scaled (i.e. with respect to user settings) system (or any other) font you may do the following.
let newFont = UIFontMetrics.default.scaledFont(for: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: UIFont.systemFontSize)) // The same is possible for custom font.
let mattrStr = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: attrStr!)
mattrStr.beginEditing()
mattrStr.enumerateAttribute(.font, in: NSRange(location: 0, length: mattrStr.length), options: .longestEffectiveRangeNotRequired) { (value, range, _) in
if let oFont = value as? UIFont, let newFontDescriptor = oFont.fontDescriptor.withFamily(newFont.familyName).withSymbolicTraits(oFont.fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits) {
let nFont = UIFont(descriptor: newFontDescriptor, size: newFont.pointSize)
mattrStr.removeAttribute(.font, range: range)
mattrStr.addAttribute(.font, value: nFont, range: range)
}
}
mattrStr.endEditing()
label.attributedText = mattrStr
You could try an attributed string:
var attrStr = NSAttributedString(
data: "<b><i>text</i></b>".dataUsingEncoding(NSUnicodeStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true),
options: [ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil,
error: nil)
label.attributedText = attrStr
Objective-C Version:
NSError *error = nil;
NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:contentData
options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute : NSHTMLTextDocumentType}
documentAttributes:nil error:&error];
This is just the Objective-C conversion of the above answers. All the answers above are right and reference taken from the above answers for this.