Rendering HTML in a WebView with custom CSS

You could use WebView.loadDataWithBaseURL

htmlData = "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"style.css\" />" + htmlData;
// lets assume we have /assets/style.css file
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", htmlData, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

And only after that WebView will be able to find and use css-files from the assets directory.

ps And, yes, if you load your html-file form the assets folder, you don't need to specify a base url.

I assume that your style-sheet "style.css" is already located in the assets-folder

load the web-page with jsoup:

doc = Jsoup.connect("http://....").get();

remove links to external style-sheets:

// remove links to external style-sheets
doc.head().getElementsByTag("link").remove();

set link to local style-sheet:

// set link to local stylesheet
// <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
doc.head().appendElement("link").attr("rel", "stylesheet").attr("type", "text/css").attr("href", "style.css");

make string from jsoup-doc/web-page:
```
String htmldata = doc.outerHtml();
```

display web-page in webview:

WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/.", htmlData, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

here is the solution

Put your html and css in your /assets/ folder, then load the html file like so:

    WebView wv = new WebView(this);

    wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/yourHtml.html");

then in your html you can reference your css in the usual way

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />

It's as simple as is:

WebView webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/some.html");

And your some.html needs to contain something like:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

If you have your CSS in the internal file storage you can use

//Get a reference to your webview
WebView web = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webby);

// Prepare some html, it is formated with css loaded from the file style.css
String webContent = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"style.css\"></head>"
                      + "<body><div class=\"running\">I am a text rendered with INDIGO</div></body></html>";

//get and format the path pointing to the internal storage
String internalFilePath = "file://" + getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/";

//load the html with the baseURL, all files relative to the baseURL will be found 
web.loadDataWithBaseURL(internalFilePath, webContent, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

Rendering HTML in a WebView with custom CSS

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