how to create textview link without underscore in android

Question

i came into this wired situation, my code is as follow

LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
ll.addView(tv);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\"" 
        + StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(elem.getChildText("newsLink")) + "\">" 
                + StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(elem.getChildText("Title")) + "</a>"));
tv.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

but the style="text-decoration:none" and tv.setTextColor(color.black)both not working, the link is still in blue with underscore, any hints on why they're not working? Thanks!

please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4096851/remove-underline-from-links-in-textview-android and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3115956/android-textview-link-without-underline — Shayan Pourvatan, Apr 20 '14 at 06:05

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '14 at 06:11

8

you can try this. such as

String content = "your <a href='http://some.url'>html</a> content";

Here is a concise way to remove underlines from hyperlinks:

Spannable s = (Spannable) Html.fromHtml(content);
for (URLSpan u: s.getSpans(0, s.length(), URLSpan.class)) {
    s.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan() {
        public void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp) {
            tp.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
    }, s.getSpanStart(u), s.getSpanEnd(u), 0);
}
tv.setText(s);

answered Apr 20 '14 at 06:11

Thanks, it works! and do not have to create another class! by the way, any thoughts on why setTextColor(Color.BALCK) not work? – user2810081 Apr 20 '14 at 06:20
please click accept symbol for earn 10 reputations, please – Apr 20 '14 at 06:21
I solved this, setTextColor() can not change the link color, need to use setLinkTextColor() – user2810081 Apr 20 '14 at 06:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '14 at 06:10

You can use Spannable and URLSpan here to remove hyperlink underline from your code

First of all make your anchor tag text into Spannable

Spannable spannedText = Spannable.Factory.getInstance().newSpannable(
            Html.fromHtml(webLinkText));

Create new class URLSpanNoUnderline and extend it with URLSpan and override updateDrawState method. in that method you can set setUnderlineText to false

then use this method you can remove your link

public static Spannable removeUnderlines(Spannable p_Text) {  
       URLSpan[] spans = p_Text.getSpans(0, p_Text.length(), URLSpan.class);  
       for (URLSpan span : spans) {  
            int start = p_Text.getSpanStart(span);  
            int end = p_Text.getSpanEnd(span);  
            p_Text.removeSpan(span);  
            span = new URLSpanNoUnderline(span.getURL());  
            p_Text.setSpan(span, start, end, 0);  
       }  
       return p_Text;  
  }

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