Set TextView with Bullets and Number for HTML String

Question

I have String which contains HTML data with <ol> and <ul> tag. How to set both in TextView. I am able to set Bullets but not number format. What I did is here:

String html_title = demoList.get(position - 1).getText();
String li = html_title.replace("<li>", " \u25CF");
String mal = li.replace("</li>", "<br/>");
String main_hrml = mal.replace("\t", "\n").replace("\n\n", "\n").trim();

setTextViewHTML(((DemoViewHolderSecond) holder).demoSecondItemInitView.type_1_bodyTxt, main_html);


private void setTextViewHTML(TextView type_1_bodyTxt, String main_html) {
    CharSequence sequence = Html.fromHtml(main_html);
    SpannableStringBuilder strBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(sequence);
    URLSpan[] urls = strBuilder.getSpans(0, sequence.length(), URLSpan.class);
    for (URLSpan span : urls) {
        makeLinkClickable(strBuilder, span);
    }

    if (main_html.contains("<p>")){
        if (!main_html.contains("<ul")) {
            GetDeviceResolution getDeviceResolution = new GetDeviceResolution((CoverDetailsActivity) context);
            type_1_bodyTxt.setPadding(0, 0, 0, -(int) (getDeviceResolution.setHeight(0.06)));
        }else{
            GetDeviceResolution getDeviceResolution = new GetDeviceResolution((CoverDetailsActivity) context);
            type_1_bodyTxt.setPadding(0, 0, 0, -(int) (getDeviceResolution.setHeight(0.02)));
        }
    }
    type_1_bodyTxt.setText(strBuilder);
    type_1_bodyTxt.setLinkTextColor(Color.RED);

    removeLine(type_1_bodyTxt, main_html);
    type_1_bodyTxt.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
}

The problem is only you want number instead of bullets ?? right ?? — Anil Prajapati, Jan 20 '17 at 04:01
Possible duplicate of [Show

in android textview](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11214001/show-ul-li-in-android-textview) — Selvin, Jan 25 '17 at 15:42

Ankush Bist · Answer 1 · 2017-01-20T06:16:49.560

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Try changing your code as stated below:

Add this method to your class or in any singleton class

public class UlTagHandler implements Html.TagHandler{
    @Override
    public void handleTag(boolean opening, String tag, Editable output,
                          XMLReader xmlReader) {
        if(tag.equals("ul")&& !opening) output.append("\n");
        if(tag.equals("li")&& opening) output.append("\n" +Html.fromHtml("&#8226;"));
    }
}

Now setText to your TextView or EditText element

 String your_html_string= "<ul>\n" +
            "  <li>Coffee</li>\n" +
            "  <li>Tea</li>\n" +
            "  <li>Milk</li>\n" +
            "</ul>";

btnSubmit.setText(Html.fromHtml(your_html_string, null, new UlTagHandler()));

The above code is for tag only. For tag you can update yourself :D

Rest you need to do is to set property of your EditText or TextView element height to wrapContent do not assign some fixed height.

edited Jan 20 '17 at 06:16

answered Jan 20 '17 at 03:58

Ankush Bist

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Sorry but I do then I wont able to get
– coder_baba Jan 20 '17 at 04:01
if your string contains real HTML data and you need to print that to your textview, this is the easiest and correct approach to achieve. Source provided by android itself. – Ankush Bist Jan 20 '17 at 04:06
It will show HTML data i Agree but if you want Spannable then it wont work – coder_baba Jan 20 '17 at 04:08
@Target If you are using more than very simple HTML, you should use a `WebView` instead of a `TextView`. – Code-Apprentice Jan 20 '17 at 04:09
@Target will update in sometime after testing the same. – Ankush Bist Jan 20 '17 at 04:11
@Code-Apprentice Thank you but My all data is reflecting inside RecyclerView So I can't :( – coder_baba Jan 20 '17 at 04:11
@AnkushBist Thank you :) – coder_baba Jan 20 '17 at 04:12
@Target code update successfully. And working fine for me – Ankush Bist Jan 20 '17 at 06:17
default Html conversion do not support unorderedList and orderList. huh – Ankush Bist Jan 20 '17 at 06:19

Set TextView with Bullets and Number for HTML String

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