How to show html string in text widget flutter

Question

How to show html tag string in flutter, i have tried a plugin and its not working.

new HtmlView(
     data: html,
     baseURL: "", // optional, type String
     onLaunchFail: (url) { // optional, type Function
     print("launch $url failed");
   }

This is my html

“Follow<a class='sup'><sup>pl</sup></a> what was sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow other guardians apart from Him. Little do <span class='h'>you remind yourselves</span><a class='f'><sup f=2437>1</sup></a>.”

i user flutter_html_view: "^0.5.10" this plugin

@NagendraBadiganti Flutter (Channel beta, v1.0.0, on Mac OS X 10.13.6 17G65, locale en-IN) — Deepak Gehlot, Dec 17 '18 at 13:29
check with flutter_html: ^0.8.2 dependency. it works great for me all the time. I just posted an answer. If it works, give the thumb up. — Nagendra Badiganti, Dec 17 '18 at 13:33
This plugin simply cannot render well your html code. Read [docs](https://github.com/PonnamKarthik/FlutterHtmlView) `This plugin does't support rendering full html code ` — shadowsheep, Dec 17 '18 at 13:41
The webview_flutter plugin from the Flutter Team is working pretty well for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55149298 — Suragch, Mar 13 '19 at 20:57

score 82 · Answer 1 · edited May 14 '21 at 23:22

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This plugin doesn`t have any issue, I just created a sample with your HTML and it works fine. Try to replace with below snippet and see if that works.

dependencies:
  flutter_html: ^0.8.2

and imports and code to render html

import 'package:flutter_html/flutter_html.dart';
import 'package:html/dom.dart' as dom;


 body: new Center(
            child: SingleChildScrollView(
              child: Html(
                data: """
                <div>Follow<a class='sup'><sup>pl</sup></a> 
                  Below hr
                    <b>Bold</b>
                <h1>what was sent down to you from your Lord</h1>, 
                and do not follow other guardians apart from Him. Little do 
                <span class='h'>you remind yourselves</span><a class='f'><sup f=2437>1</sup></a></div>
                """,
                padding: EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                onLinkTap: (url) {
                  print("Opening $url...");
                },
                customRender: (node, children) {
                  if (node is dom.Element) {
                    switch (node.localName) {
                      case "custom_tag": // using this, you can handle custom tags in your HTML 
                        return Column(children: children);
                    }
                  }
                },
              ),
            ),
          )

edited May 14 '21 at 23:22

alireza easazade

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answered Dec 17 '18 at 13:28

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do u know another plugin beside flutter_html, this plugin cannot render table and is not selectable, thankyou – MNFS Apr 20 '20 at 09:59
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flutter_html supports ,, now. Only thing it doesn't support is
, ,
– Jet.B.Pope May 05 '20 at 15:54
the html data converts the div tags to spans on inspection. I need the div and the div id to be retained. – Golden Lion Aug 17 '20 at 17:41
you can use flutter data table to render table information in data rows and data columns and data cells – Golden Lion Aug 17 '20 at 17:43
Hi I would like to implement it in flutter web, do you know some available packages? – wahyu Nov 27 '20 at 07:21
how can i use porperties like overflow, maxlines in it?? – Shadab Hashmi May 12 '21 at 13:16
What if there will be video or image link inside html? – Jaimin Modi Sep 21 '22 at 10:27

Furkan Öztürk · Answer 2 · 2021-01-05T08:34:28.143

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I've just done the followings and it works fine.

Add flutter_html to your pubspec.yaml file.

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  flutter_html: ^0.8.2

Run the following command to update packages.

flutter pub get

Import flutter_html

import 'package:flutter_html/flutter_html.dart';

Replace Text widget with Html widget.

   child: 
   // Text(
   //   "Hello Programmer",
   //   style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
   // ),
   Html(data:"<p>Hello <b>Flutter</b><p>"),

edited Jan 05 '21 at 08:34

answered Aug 13 '20 at 14:48

Furkan Öztürk

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What if there will be video or image link inside html? – Jaimin Modi Sep 21 '22 at 10:27

shadowsheep · Answer 3 · 2018-12-17T14:14:22.917

Do not use flutter_html_view that reading at the documentation:

Supported Tags

p

em

b

img

video

h1,

h2,

h3,

h4,

h5,

h6

Note

This plugin converts some of the html tags to flutter widgets This plugin does't support rendering full html code (there is no built in support for web rendering in flutter)

So it simply doesn't render well your html because it can't.

But you could find other pulugins, like flutter_html

https://github.com/Sub6Resources/flutter_html

and give them a try in order to see if they perform better.

UPDATE

In pubspec.yaml I've add

dependencies:
  flutter_html: ^0.8.2

and my main.dart is

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_html/flutter_html.dart';


void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        // This is the theme of your application.
        //
        // Try running your application with "flutter run". You'll see the
        // application has a blue toolbar. Then, without quitting the app, try
        // changing the primarySwatch below to Colors.green and then invoke
        // "hot reload" (press "r" in the console where you ran "flutter run",
        // or simply save your changes to "hot reload" in a Flutter IDE).
        // Notice that the counter didn't reset back to zero; the application
        // is not restarted.
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  // This widget is the home page of your application. It is stateful, meaning
  // that it has a State object (defined below) that contains fields that affect
  // how it looks.

  // This class is the configuration for the state. It holds the values (in this
  // case the title) provided by the parent (in this case the App widget) and
  // used by the build method of the State. Fields in a Widget subclass are
  // always marked "final".

  final String title;

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  int _counter = 0;
  var html = "Follow<a class='sup'>pl</a> what was sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow other guardians apart from Him. Little do <p class='h'>you remind yourselves</p><a class='f'><sup f=2437>1</a>.";


  void _incrementCounter() {
    setState(() {
      // This call to setState tells the Flutter framework that something has
      // changed in this State, which causes it to rerun the build method below
      // so that the display can reflect the updated values. If we changed
      // _counter without calling setState(), then the build method would not be
      // called again, and so nothing would appear to happen.
      _counter++;
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    // This method is rerun every time setState is called, for instance as done
    // by the _incrementCounter method above.
    //
    // The Flutter framework has been optimized to make rerunning build methods
    // fast, so that you can just rebuild anything that needs updating rather
    // than having to individually change instances of widgets.
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        // Here we take the value from the MyHomePage object that was created by
        // the App.build method, and use it to set our appbar title.
        title: Text(widget.title),
      ),
      body: Center(
        // Center is a layout widget. It takes a single child and positions it
        // in the middle of the parent.
        child: Column(
          // Column is also layout widget. It takes a list of children and
          // arranges them vertically. By default, it sizes itself to fit its
          // children horizontally, and tries to be as tall as its parent.
          //
          // Invoke "debug painting" (press "p" in the console, choose the
          // "Toggle Debug Paint" action from the Flutter Inspector in Android
          // Studio, or the "Toggle Debug Paint" command in Visual Studio Code)
          // to see the wireframe for each widget.
          //
          // Column has various properties to control how it sizes itself and
          // how it positions its children. Here we use mainAxisAlignment to
          // center the children vertically; the main axis here is the vertical
          // axis because Columns are vertical (the cross axis would be
          // horizontal).
          mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
          children: <Widget>[
            Html(
              data: html,
              ),
            Text(
              'You have pushed the button this many times:',
            ),
            Text(
              '$_counter',
              style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1,
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
      floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
        onPressed: _incrementCounter,
        tooltip: 'Increment',
        child: Icon(Icons.add),
      ), // This trailing comma makes auto-formatting nicer for build methods.
    );
  }
}

can you show me your code, i have checked but the pl not showing like yours. — Deepak Gehlot, Dec 17 '18 at 14:11
@DeepakGehlot sure. I've updated my answer. I've just modified the standard Flutter Activity project to test it. — shadowsheep, Dec 17 '18 at 14:29

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 28 '20 at 11:12

Add the following to your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  flutter_html:

Currently Supported HTML Tags:

a, abbr, acronym, address, article, aside, b, bdi, bdo, big, blockquote, body, br, caption, cite, code, data, dd, del, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, figcaption, figure, footer, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hr, i, img, ins, kbd, li, main, mark, nav, noscript, ol, p, pre, q, rp, rt, ruby, s, samp, section, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, template, tfoot, th, thead, time, tr, tt, u, ul, var

Example Usage:

Column(
   mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.start,
   crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
   children: [
      new Html(
         data: "<b>Welcome</b>,
          defaultTextStyle: TextStyle(fontSize: 15),
       ),
     ],
)

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 12 '22 at 07:19

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all the packages mentioned from other answers are no longer maintained ( at least when I write this answer), it will create conflict to other packages I use which has recent update, I end up using this package: flutter_widget_from_html (ps: it is not mine)

answered Dec 12 '22 at 07:19

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I'm using the flutter_html: ^2.2.1, worked fine in android and iOS... this one give me some problems with the SDK version. – E. Greeff Apr 11 '23 at 20:38

Shyju M · Answer 6 · 2018-12-18T04:12:37.583

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Use flutter_webview_plugin plugin

example:

new WebviewScaffold(
              url: new Uri.dataFromString('<html><body>hello world</body></html>', mimeType: 'text/html').toString()

Webview inside custom Rectangle

final flutterWebviewPlugin = new FlutterWebviewPlugin();

flutterWebviewPlugin.launch(url,
  fullScreen: false,
  rect: new Rect.fromLTWH(
    0.0,
    0.0,
    MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
    300.0,
  ),
);

edited Dec 18 '18 at 04:12

answered Dec 17 '18 at 17:21

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WebView cannot be add to the widget tree, ain’t it. Or am I miss something? – shadowsheep Dec 17 '18 at 19:17
Have you checked the example code ? https://github.com/fluttercommunity/flutter_webview_plugin/blob/master/example/lib/main.dart – Shyju M Dec 18 '18 at 04:07
its a Scaffold not a widget, if you want to insert into your existing page then you can make use of the webview in a rectangle flutterWebViewPlugin.launch( selectedUrl, rect: Rect.fromLTWH(0.0, 0.0, MediaQuery.of(context).size.width, 300.0), userAgent: kAndroidUserAgent, ); – Shyju M Dec 18 '18 at 04:10
Yep, I had :-). That's the reason of my question ***Warning:** The webview is not integrated in the widget tree, it is a native view on top of the flutter view. you won't be able to use snackbars, dialogs ...* The example code use it as a page not in the widget tree. – shadowsheep Dec 18 '18 at 04:10
create your own scaffold and render the webview inside a rectangle, then you can use snackbars, dialog, etc – Shyju M Dec 18 '18 at 04:14
Glad to know that, thanks. But I guess that that is beyond the OP question. Didn't you think that should be too much code to obtain what he's asking for? – shadowsheep Dec 18 '18 at 04:18
unable to load this html using this plugin too, i have user WebviewScaffold just for testing and its not loading showing error "string contains invalid characters." Follow^pl what was sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow other guardians apart from Him. Little do you remind yourselves¹. – Deepak Gehlot Dec 18 '18 at 05:22
here is the working code https://gist.github.com/shyjuzz/d6fd5562f97b36b0e2eb957eff3c687a – Shyju M Dec 19 '18 at 05:13
https://github.com/fluttercommunity/flutter_webview_plugin/issues/772 – Elia Weiss Feb 14 '21 at 15:14
I get `Contains invalid characters.` – Elia Weiss Feb 14 '21 at 15:28

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 23 '21 at 15:55

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In the pubspec.yml add the following:

dependencies:
  flutter_html:

Then run:

flutter clean && flutter pub get

Finally, add the code like this:

import 'package:flutter_html/flutter_html.dart';
.
.
.
body: Center( Html(
      data: """
            <div>This is the start of a div
              <a class='sup'><sup>a sup</sup></a> 
              and after sub
              <b>Bold</b>
              <h1>This is a header with number 1557</h1> 
              A text and 
            <span class='h'>some stuff</div>
            """,
    ),)

Until now, it works fine on both mobile and web.

answered Dec 23 '21 at 15:55

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What if there will be video or image link inside html? – Jaimin Modi Sep 21 '22 at 10:27
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I tried using images before and it worked fine. I didn't try videos but I think it would be fine too. Please, share your experience with us after trying it. – Mostafa Wael Sep 21 '22 at 10:48

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 12 '22 at 08:01

might be a little late but i've made a project that accepts and tags

so you can do this

HTMLText('<b><i>SOME VERY IMPORTANT TEXT</i></b>');

and it'll translate your HTML into flutter based widgets and respect dark/light theme colors as well.

https://github.com/forumics/flutter-html-text

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 14 '23 at 06:48

To convert HTML to TextWidget, you can use the html package. Here's an example:

First of add the dependency

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  html: ^0.15.0
  url_launcher: ^6.1.10

After that import the package and use the parse method to convert the HTML string to a Document object:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:html/parser.dart' show parse;
import 'package:html/dom.dart' as dom;
import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart';

class HtmlToRichTextWidget extends StatelessWidget {
  final String? htmlString;

  const HtmlToRichTextWidget({Key? key, this.htmlString = ''})
      : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final document = html_parser.parse(htmlString);
    final inlineSpans = _parseNode(document.body!);

    return RichText(
      text: TextSpan(
          children: inlineSpans, style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.black)),
    );
  }

  List<InlineSpan> _parseNode(dom.Node node) {
    final inlineSpans = <InlineSpan>[];

    if (node.nodeType == dom.Node.TEXT_NODE) {
      final text = node.text;
      inlineSpans.add(TextSpan(text: text));
    } else if (node.nodeType == dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
      final element = node as dom.Element;

      switch (element.localName) {
        case "b":
        case 'strong':
          return _parseElements(
              element, const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold));
        case "i":
        case 'em':
          return _parseElements(
              element, const TextStyle(fontStyle: FontStyle.italic));
        case "u":
          return _parseElements(
              element, const TextStyle(decoration: TextDecoration.underline));
        case "sub":
          inlineSpans.add(WidgetSpan(
            alignment: PlaceholderAlignment.bottom,
            child: SizedBox(
              height: 10,
              child: Text(
                element.text,
                style: const TextStyle(
                  fontSize: 12,
                  color: Colors.blue,
                  textBaseline: TextBaseline.alphabetic,
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ));
          break;
        case "sup":
          inlineSpans.add(WidgetSpan(
            alignment: PlaceholderAlignment.top,
            child: SizedBox(
              height: 10,
              child: Text(
                element.text,
                style: const TextStyle(
                  fontSize: 12,
                  color: Colors.blue,
                  textBaseline: TextBaseline.alphabetic,
                ),
              ),
            ),
          ));
          break;
        case "p":
          return _parseElements(element, const TextStyle());
        case "span":
          // print(element.className);
          return _parseElements(element, const TextStyle(color: Colors.red));

        case "a":
          final href = element.attributes['href'] ?? '';
          return _parseElements(
              element,
              const TextStyle(
                  decoration: TextDecoration.underline, color: Colors.blue),
              href);
        case 'br':
          inlineSpans.add(const TextSpan(text: "\n"));
          break;
        default:
          return _parseElements(element, const TextStyle());
      }
    }

    return inlineSpans;
  }

  List<InlineSpan> _parseElements(dom.Element element, TextStyle style,
      [String? href]) {
    final spans = <InlineSpan>[];

    for (final node in element.nodes) {
      final childTextSpans = _parseNode(node);

      for (final childTextSpan in childTextSpans) {
        var launch = TapGestureRecognizer()
          ..onTap = () => launchUrl(Uri.tryParse(href ?? "")!);
        if (childTextSpan is TextSpan) {
          spans.add(
            TextSpan(
              text: childTextSpan.text,
              style: style.merge(childTextSpan.style),
              recognizer: href != null ? launch : null,
            ),
          );
        } else {
          spans.add(childTextSpan);
          print(childTextSpan.toString());
        }
      }
    }
    return spans;
  }
}

In the updated version, we added support for the tag to the switch statement in the _parseNode method. We also updated the _parseElements method to accept an optional href parameter, which we use to create a TapGestureRecognizer and add to the TextSpan when a tag is encountered.

You'll need to import package:flutter/gestures.dart and package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart from url_launcher package to use the TapGestureRecognizer and launch function.

score -1 · Answer 10 · answered Jun 20 '22 at 19:35

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if you have list of object and need to groupBy you can use following link: groupBy_in_flutter

answered Jun 20 '22 at 19:35

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How to show html string in text widget flutter

10 Answers10

I've just done the followings and it works fine.

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