Can underline words in TextView text

Question

Is there possibility in android to provide TextView some text in Java code with setText(text) function with basic tags like and to make marked words underlined ?

Allan

This will help you, this is the example by which you can underline your textview text and also italic. – Servant

possible duplicate of How to display HTML in TextView? – Alena

Answer 1

Yes, you can, use the Html.fromhtml() method:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("this is <u>underlined</u> text"));

Joniejonina

well, I am facing a problem. Here is the line of codes that is not working. textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.have_activation_code))); <string name="have_activation_code"><u>I have activation code</u></string> – Dysgenic

@mahbub.kuet You have to put your HTML string into <![CDATA[]]>. So <string name="have_activation_code"><![CDATA[<u>I have activation code</u>]]></string> – Aphis

Html.fromHtml is deprecated now – Bullion

Answer 2

Define a string as:

<resources>
    <string name="your_string">This is an <u>underline</u> text demo for TextView.</string>
</resources>

Clipfed

Yes but you can use it for dynamic strings by using Html.fromHtml(), check above answer https://mcmap.net/q/54749/-can-underline-words-in-textview-text – Clipfed

@PareshMayani but beware, there are tags not supported by Html.fromHtml(). Check this out https://mcmap.net/q/54747/-html-list-tag-not-working-in-android-textview-what-can-i-do – Horoscope

Answer 3

You can use UnderlineSpan from SpannableString class:

SpannableString content = new SpannableString(<your text>);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);

Then just use textView.setText(content);

Gittle

Answer 4

tobeunderlined= <u>some text here which is to be underlined</u> 

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("some string"+tobeunderlined+"somestring"));

Zoba

Answer 5

Most Easy Way

TextView tv = findViewById(R.id.tv);
tv.setText("some text");
setUnderLineText(tv, "some");

Also support TextView childs like EditText, Button, Checkbox

public void setUnderLineText(TextView tv, String textToUnderLine) {
        String tvt = tv.getText().toString();
        int ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToUnderLine, 0);

        UnderlineSpan underlineSpan = new UnderlineSpan();
        SpannableString wordToSpan = new SpannableString(tv.getText());
        for (int ofs = 0; ofs < tvt.length() && ofe != -1; ofs = ofe + 1) {
            ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToUnderLine, ofs);
            if (ofe == -1)
                break;
            else {
                wordToSpan.setSpan(underlineSpan, ofe, ofe + textToUnderLine.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                tv.setText(wordToSpan, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
            }
        }
    }

If you want

- Clickable underline text?

- Underline multiple parts of TextView?

Then Check This Answer

Dolorous