Android String.Xml Reading HTML Tags Problem

android string.xml reading html tags problem

Use XML CDATA

<string name="demoStr"><Data><![CDATA[ <b>ABC</b> ]]> </Data></string>

getString() will be got "<b>ABC</b>"

HTML tags not working within strings.xml

Use getText(int) instead of getString(int).

Why will the simple HTML tags not work yet this other method works just fine?

Because the getString(int) method will return a string, that is stripped of styled text information, like the docs say.

As per the Android developer guidelines the getText(int) method does not:

getText(int) will retain any rich text styling applied to the string.

The <string name="name"><b>bold text here</b></string> solution with getString() works because you've encoded the less than sign.

Android formatting xml string loses its html tags

use Html.fromHtml

builder.setMessage(Html.fromHtml(text));

when you apply the formatting, the CharSequence is converted back to String, and you need the Spannable with the html information.

From the doc:

Sometimes you may want to create a styled text resource that is also
used as a format string. Normally, this won't work because the
String.format(String, Object...) method will strip all the style
information from the string. The work-around to this is to write the
HTML tags with escaped entities, which are then recovered with
fromHtml(String), after the formatting takes place.

try with <b> in place of <b> and with </b> in place </b>

Android string with HTML failed

You have to wrap the string content into <Data></Data>

<string name="my_string"><Data><![CDATA[<p>This is a paragraph!</p>]]> </Data></string>

android string.xml reading html tags problem

Android: getString() from resources loses any tags in the string

Why not try to replace '<', '>' and '\' by the corresponding unicode characters?

Regards.

Html format tags ignored in Dialog

You could format with HTML by using a WebView in the dialog:

strings.xml

<string name="example_text" formatted ="false"><![CDATA[ <strong> Example Text </strong> ]]></string>

java

String string = getString(R.string.example_text);
WebView wv = new WebView (getBaseContext());
wv.loadData(string, "text/html", "utf-8");
wv.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
wv.getSettings().setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");
new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
 .setCancelable(false)
 .setView(wv)
 .setNeutralButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
    @Override
    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
        dialog.cancel();

    }

  }) 
 .show(); 

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