Links in UITextView : add and custom

Question

1) I would like to add a link to a UITextView. I know that if I put a url like http://stackoverflow.com in my text, it will automatically be recognized as a link. But is there a way to have a link for a word, and not only for a url ? Like in HTML : <a href="http://stackoverflow.com ">stackoverflow</a>

2) I would like to custom this link, and especially its color, font type, etc. Is there a way to add a property only for the link ?

If all this is complicated, do you see any better way to do it easily ?

Thank you !

See here http://stackoverflow.com/a/21630187/1161906 – bcattle Nov 11 '15 at 05:14 — bcattle, Nov 11 '15 at 05:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '13 at 13:49

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try this:

self.myTextView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;

answered Jul 15 '13 at 13:49

DharaParekh

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Thanks, but as I said, I don't want to recognize urls. I want a simple word to be clicable, like in HTML : `stackoverflow` – Nicolas Roy Jul 15 '13 at 14:06

Nicolas Roy · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-16T13:30:11.403

It seams it's not possible to do what I wanted with UITextViews (at least not easily). The solution is to use a UIWebView instead and load a local HTML file with the text and the link. You can even put some CSS to customize the color, size ...

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.

    // webview
    webview.delegate = (id<UIWebViewDelegate>)self;
    NSString *path;
    NSBundle *thisBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
    path = [thisBundle pathForResource:@"fileName" ofType:@"html"];
    NSError *error;
    NSString *initialHTMLString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
    [webview loadHTMLString:initialHTMLString baseURL:nil];

    webview.opaque = NO;
    webview.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}


- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {

    if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) {

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[request URL]];

        return NO;
    }

return YES;

}

I hope this will help anyone having the same problem !

Check BHUPI 's answer here, it does exactly what you want: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2454067/display-html-text-in-uitextview — alasker, Mar 05 '16 at 21:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 11 '17 at 10:54

textView.dataDetectorTypes = .link
textView.isEditable = false
textView.isSelectable = true

let html = "<div style=\"font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 20;\"><a href=\"http://www.stackoverflow.com\">stackoverflow</a></div>"

if let dataWithHTML = html.data(using: .utf8) {

    textView.attributedText = try? NSAttributedString(data: dataWithHTML, options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue], documentAttributes: nil)
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 15 '13 at 13:48

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Take a look at DTCoreText which offers a range of different views where you can use HTMLish input and customise the display and handling.

answered Jul 15 '13 at 13:48

Wain

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