Android TextView's subscript being clipped off

Question

The Android TextView clips off my text subscripts (see image below) even when I use android:layout_height=\"wrap_content\" for the TextView. Is there a fix/work

Answer 1

I had the same issue, so after reading the posts, I found this to be working.

Example : H₂O
simply use :

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("H<sub>2</sub>O"),BufferType.SPANNABLE);

BufferType.SPANNABLE is important as it will tell textview to consider the superscript span.

If you are using custom tag handler for HTML you can also use it like this:

 textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(data, null, new CustomHtmlTagHandler(),BufferType.SPANNABLE);

Hope it helps someone looking for same problem.

Answer 2

This worked for me along with the Small tag.

1. Inside the TextView add

android:paddingBottom="1dp"

2. Use the small Tag after the subscript

yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("" +" Hey< sub >< small >2< /small > < /sub >"));

Note Please note , step 1 is important , My text was still cutting down in some case,using paddingBottom resolved it. Don't forget to remove the spaces in sub and small tags that are present in my answer :)

Answer 3

android:lineSpacingExtra="4dp" should solve it this will add extra line spacing below your text, and keep subscript from getting cutoff. I haven't tried it with superscript so it might now fix that.