Questions tagged [text-styling]
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How to set the font style to bold, italic and underlined in an Android TextView?
I want to make a TextView's content bold, italic and underlined. I tried the following code and it works, but doesn't underline.

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Vertical (rotated) text in HTML table
Is there a (portable) way to rotate text in a HTML table cell by 90°?
(I have a table with many columns and much text for the headings, so I'd like to write it vertically to save space.)

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Android text style missing light, medium, thin,
When setting custom fonts for a textview, I can only choose normal, bold or italic:
How can I set the style to be light instead of bold in the following example?

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“text-overflow” for a QLabel’s text rendering in QT
I have got a QLabel element in a widget which can be resized. The text can overflow boundaries, so I need, for the application to look more elegant, some way to make the text generate an ellipsis (...) after the last totally visible word in the…
user1598585
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How to set heading, subheading, body, footnote, and captions font for dynamic type text styles in Swift?
I was working through the Using Text Kit to Manage Text in Your iOS Apps tutorial. It was written for Objective C but I thought I would try to do it anyway using Swift.
However, when I got to the following code I couldn't figure out how to set the…

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Handling UIContentSizeCategoryDidChangeNotification for NSAttributedString in UITextView
I have an NSAttributedString in a UITextView and would like to handle the UIContentSizeCategoryDidChangeNotification when working with Dynamic Type and specifically the text styles. All the examples I've seen (IntroToTextKitDemo) address the case…

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Android Textview Italic and wrap_contents
I am using 3 italic textviews with different colors

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React native text word break strategy of strings with dash
Setup
react: 16.6.0-alpha.8af6728
react-native: 0.57.4
Problem
Word breaking in Text component does not handle strings with dashes the way app design wants it. I want to word wrap the whole word taking into account dashes. This whole…

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Any ideas about how to use CSS to emulate a messy stamp?
I'm interested in ways to render a span that to look something like one of these:
Here are the tricks I plan on using:
@font-face
-{moz/webkit/o}-transform:rotate
It's for a personal project so assuming the most modern CSS support is fine. Maybe…
user18015
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After word break, align next line to the left rather than center
I am styling my paragraphs and I have line break after a certain amount of characters. I want to be able to make the line after the break to be aligned left rather than center.
.justify {
text-align: justify;
text-justify:…

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How to print an String variable as italicized text
I have the following statements inside my class:
String myName = "Joe";
System.out.println("My name is " +myName);
I need the value on the variable myName to be printed as italic text.

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WPF RichTextBox Syntax Highlighting Issue
Hello everyone I've been working on a WPF application that has a text editor this text editor should apply some styling or colorizing over some tokens (keywords) to highlight it and make it obvious,,, the problem is i tried very very hard but i…

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Change style of html links in TextViews after executing Html.fromHtml
I'm developing an android application. I retrieve some data that looks like this:
My Link to Google!
I'm applying it to a TextView like…

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Styling not parsed from backend
I have an application with an angular frontend and C# backend.
I'm receiving this rich text from the backend of my application:
Hello world
What gets displayed is " Hello world "
What I want to be…

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setting TextView's text style to TextAppearance.Appcompat... programmatically
I have been using:
style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.SearchResult.Title"
in my layout xml, but this time i want to set text style programmatically from java code.
But this code:
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M)…

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