In android I\'m using WebView to display a part of a webpage which I fetched from the internet using HttpClient from Apache. To only have the part I want from the html, I us
Seva Alekseyev is right, you should store CSS files in assets
folder, but referring by file:///android_asset/filename.css
URL doesn't working for me.
There is another solution: put CSS in assets
folder, do your manipulation with HTML, but refer to CSS by relative path, and load HTML to WebView by loadDataWithBaseURL() method:
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", htmlString, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
E.g. you have styles.css
file, put it to assets
folder, create HTML and load it:
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("<HTML><HEAD><LINK href=\"styles.css\" type=\"text/css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"/></HEAD><body>");
sb.append(tables.toString());
sb.append("</body></HTML>");
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", sb.toString(), "text/html", "utf-8", null);
P.S. I've come to this solution thanks to Peter Knego's answer.
On a related note, if you're not storing the file in the assets folder and want to use relative paths, Webview on Android sometimes requires dot-slash before relative paths.
<LINK href="./styles/file.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
See this post
You cannot store arbitrary files in res
- just the specific resource types (drawables, layouts, etc.). The CSS should go to the assets
folder instead. Then you can refer to it by the following URL: file:///android_asset/MyStyle.css