Pasting Html text in Edittext

Question

How to restrict HTML content while pasting some text from a website to our EditText?.

Example I copy some text from a website, when I paste the text in my EditText the HTML font and text size also comes along. What i want is to restrict any HTML content while I paste the text. Tried several methods using TextWatcher and InputFilters, but none of them are working. Whatsapp is handling it somehow. Please help.

Edit: The string can be converted to non-HTML but how to make changes in EditText?

@Nj I do not think this question is duplicate of tagged post. Please read once before marking duplicate to any answer. — Pankaj Kumar, Jul 19 '18 at 13:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '18 at 13:12

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This is likely a Rich Text Formatting issue.

According to this question you can add a TextWatcher to your EditText and use this method:

public void afterTextChanged(Editable string)
{
    CharacterStyle[] toBeRemovedSpans = string.getSpans(0, string.length(),
                                                MetricAffectingSpan.class);
    for (int index = 0; index < toBeRemovedSpans; index++)
        string.removeSpan(toBeRemovedSpans[index]);
    }
}

Reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/24777290/5457878

answered Jul 19 '18 at 13:12

gi097

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It still leaves all the spaces around the text – Sarthak Gandhi Jul 19 '18 at 13:17
Could you give a small example? – gi097 Jul 19 '18 at 13:19
if i try to paste a text from website. The extra empty spaces still show up. – Sarthak Gandhi Jul 19 '18 at 13:22
It's ugly, but you could use `trim()` or a `Regex` to remove whitespace. – gi097 Jul 19 '18 at 13:26

Pasting Html text in Edittext

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