React Native add bold or italics to single words in field

Question

How do I make a single word in a Text field bold or italics? Kind of like this:

This is a sentence with one word in bold

        

Answer 1

Nesting Text components is not possible now, but you can wrap your text in a View like this:

<View style={{flexDirection: 'row', flexWrap: 'wrap'}}>
    <Text>
        {'Hello '}
    </Text>
    <Text style={{fontWeight: 'bold'}}>
        {'this is a bold text '}
    </Text>
    <Text>
        and this is not
    </Text>
</View>

I used the strings inside the brackets to force the space between words, but you can also achieve it with marginRight or marginLeft. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

It is not in a text field as asked but wrapping separate text elements into a view would give the desired output. This can be used if you don't want to add another library into your project just for styling a few texts.

<View style={{flexDirection: 'row'}}>
 <Text style={{fontWeight: '700', marginRight: 5}}>Contact Type:</Text>
 <Text>{data.type}</Text>
</View>

Would result as follows

Answer 3

<Text>
    <Text style={{fontWeight: "bold"}}>bold</Text>
    normal text
    <Text style={{fontStyle: "italic"}}> italic</Text>
</Text>

Answer 4

you can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-parsed-text

import ParsedText from 'react-native-parsed-text';
 
class Example extends React.Component {
  static displayName = 'Example';
 
  handleUrlPress(url) {
    LinkingIOS.openURL(url);
  }
 
  handlePhonePress(phone) {
    AlertIOS.alert(`${phone} has been pressed!`);
  }
 
  handleNamePress(name) {
    AlertIOS.alert(`Hello ${name}`);
  }
 
  handleEmailPress(email) {
    AlertIOS.alert(`send email to ${email}`);
  }
 
  renderText(matchingString, matches) {
    // matches => ["[@michel:5455345]", "@michel", "5455345"]
    let pattern = /\[(@[^:]+):([^\]]+)\]/i;
    let match = matchingString.match(pattern);
    return `^^${match[1]}^^`;
  }
 
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <ParsedText
          style={styles.text}
          parse={
            [
              {type: 'url',                       style: styles.url, onPress: this.handleUrlPress},
              {type: 'phone',                     style: styles.phone, onPress: this.handlePhonePress},
              {type: 'email',                     style: styles.email, onPress: this.handleEmailPress},
              {pattern: /Bob|David/,              style: styles.name, onPress: this.handleNamePress},
              {pattern: /\[(@[^:]+):([^\]]+)\]/i, style: styles.username, onPress: this.handleNamePress, renderText: this.renderText},
              {pattern: /42/,                     style: styles.magicNumber},
              {pattern: /#(\w+)/,                 style: styles.hashTag},
            ]
          }
          childrenProps={{allowFontScaling: false}}
        >
          Hello this is an example of the ParsedText, links like http://www.google.com or http://www.facebook.com are clickable and phone number 444-555-6666 can call too.
          But you can also do more with this package, for example Bob will change style and David too. foo@gmail.com
          And the magic number is 42!
          #react #react-native
        </ParsedText>
      </View>
    );
  }
}
 
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
 
  url: {
    color: 'red',
    textDecorationLine: 'underline',
  },
 
  email: {
    textDecorationLine: 'underline',
  },
 
  text: {
    color: 'black',
    fontSize: 15,
  },
 
  phone: {
    color: 'blue',
    textDecorationLine: 'underline',
  },
 
  name: {
    color: 'red',
  },
 
  username: {
    color: 'green',
    fontWeight: 'bold'
  },
 
  magicNumber: {
    fontSize: 42,
    color: 'pink',
  },
 
  hashTag: {
    fontStyle: 'italic',
  },
 
});

Answer 5

Bold text:

<Text>
  <Text>This is a sentence</Text>
  <Text style={{fontWeight: "bold"}}> with</Text>
  <Text> one word in bold</Text>
</Text>

Italic text:

<Text>
  <Text>This is a sentence</Text>
  <Text style={{fontStyle: "italic"}}> with</Text>
  <Text> one word in italic</Text>
</Text>

Answer 6

You could just nest the Text components with the required style. The style will be applied along with already defined style in the first Text component.

Example:

 <Text style={styles.paragraph}>
   Trouble singing in. <Text style={{fontWeight: "bold"}}> Resolve</Text>
 </Text>