Android change select dialog text color

Question

I am using WebView in my Android app. When I click on a select, a window with the select options is displayed, but the options color and background is both white, so they cannot be read, how can I change this style? If I open the same website on the regular Android browser then the options are rendered properly, So I'm guessing this is a problem with my styling, but I cannot pinpoint which style option is the one responsible.

Note that this is not a listview, but a regular web browser select popup dialog.

I guess, you need to fix css on the site, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4950729/rendering-html-in-a-webview-with-custom-css, i mean only that part with selected font color — Alexander.Iljushkin, Sep 06 '13 at 07:32
I tried that but it didn't work, also if I load the website on the regular browser on my phone it looks good. — MichelReap, Sep 06 '13 at 07:33
so maybe then you need to do something with the theme of application ? — Alexander.Iljushkin, Sep 06 '13 at 07:35
Probably, that's what I was trying to ask, how can I change the style of that particular control — MichelReap, Sep 06 '13 at 07:36
Have you seen this link http://www.mkyong.com/android/android-webview-example/ ? — Alexander.Iljushkin, Sep 06 '13 at 07:46
Also you will find a little bit here http://examples.javacodegeeks.com/android/core/ui/webview/android-webview-example/ — Alexander.Iljushkin, Sep 06 '13 at 07:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

@Andrew Dashin(https://stackoverflow.com/a/8369422/720097):

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.

Android change select dialog text color

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