How to remove formatting from anchor link in Android strings.xml

Question

I've got a string containing HTML link like this:

<string name="text_with_link"><a href="openDocument://document1.html"><b>This</b></a> and <a href="openDocument://document2.html"><b>this</b></a> are links</string>

As you noticed, I want the links to be bold. That is the only formatting I want the links to have, though. However, the result looks like this:

How can I remove the underline and color from the link?

I've tried to add style="text-decoration:none;" in following forms

<a href="openDocument://document2.html" style="text-decoration:none;">

<a href="openDocument://document2.html" style="text-decoration:none !important;">

<style>a {text-decoration:none;}</style><a href="openDocument://document1.html"><b>This</b></a>

.. but no luck. CSS doesn't seem to work in Android strings.

Maybe [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4096851/remove-underline-from-links-in-textview-android) will be helpful — DmitryArc, Oct 06 '15 at 10:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '15 at 11:09

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you will have to use Html.fromHtml for formatting to work like this:

tv = (TextView) findViewById (R.id.textviewid);       
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(getResources.getString(R.string.text_with_link)));

also to change link color you have to use android:textColorLink property in your text view XML to change the link color.

CSS does not work in android strings.

answered Oct 06 '15 at 11:09

Rahul Tiwari

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Doing that still only joins the words together without any space. – Marcel Bro Oct 07 '15 at 19:17
@anoniim can you post the result as image? – Rahul Tiwari Oct 08 '15 at 05:58
Sorry, I confused two issues I had, ignore my last comment. Anyway, after wrapping the text in Html.fromHtml() is ignored. So there is no text decoration, but also no link. Quite surprising. – Marcel Bro Oct 09 '15 at 17:35

How to remove formatting from anchor link in Android strings.xml

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