android string.xml reading html tags problem
In Android project's strings.xml file i have following html text
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="myHeadStr"><b><u>bold, underline </u></b></string>
...
</resources>
When i read this into getString(R.string.myHeadStr) it gives only text "bold, underline" it forgets the html tags and ....
how to read complete string with html tags from string.xml
Solution 1:
Use XML CDATA
<string name="demoStr"><Data><![CDATA[ <b>ABC</b> ]]> </Data></string>
getString() will be got "<b>ABC</b>"
Solution 2:
Replace < with <
<string name="myHeadStr"><b><u>bold, underline </u></b></string>
Then, when retrieving:
Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.myHeadStr));
This is the prescribed way of doing in android documentation. Read the paragraph titled: "Styling with HTML markup" in this link: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html
Solution 3:
Directly passing the string resource id to setText() or using Context.getText() without Html.fromHtml() works properly but passing in the the result of Context.getString() does not.
ex:
strings.xml:
<resources>
<string name="html">This is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>.</string>
<resources>
code in Activity.java file:
textView.setText(R.string.html); // this will properly format the text
textView.setText(getText(R.string.html)); // this will properly format the text
textView.setText(getString(R.string.html)); // this will ignore the formatting tags
Solution 4:
i've run into the same problem by trying to store a complete htmlpage in my rescources. I finaly solved the problem by changing three things:
- the "string" node needs to have set the "formatted" attribute to false.
- the stored html page needs to be wrapped in a CData node.
- the html page is NOT alowed to contain apostrophes!
The last one actualy was my main problem. So here is my strings.xml containing the "properly" stored html page.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="error_html" formatted="false" ><![CDATA[<html><head><link name="icon1" href="favicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON" /><title>Error</title><style>html, body {margin: 0;padding: 0;background: #3f0000;color: white;font-family: Arial;}#MainLink {position: relative;background: #7f0000;margin: 10px;text-decoration: none;border: 1px solid #9f0000;-webkit-border-radius: 10px;-moz-border-radius: 10px;border-radius: 10px;-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);}#MainLink {width: 462px;height: 220px;}#MainLink td {font-size: 20px;}#MainLink span {text-decoration: underline;font-weight: bold;font-size: 40px;}</style></head><body><table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td colspan="2" id="MainLink" align="center"><big><big><b>Error</b></big></big></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>]]></string>
</resources>