Can underline words in TextView text

Question

Is there possibility in android to provide TextView some text in Java code with setText(text) function with basic tags like and to make marked words underlined ?

Answer 1

Define a string as:

<resources>
    <string name="your_string">This is an <u>underline</u> text demo for TextView.</string>
</resources>

Answer 2

tobeunderlined= <u>some text here which is to be underlined</u> 

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("some string"+tobeunderlined+"somestring"));

Answer 3

Yes, you can, use the Html.fromhtml() method:

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("this is <u>underlined</u> text"));

Answer 4

Most Easy Way

TextView tv = findViewById(R.id.tv);
tv.setText("some text");
setUnderLineText(tv, "some");

Also support TextView childs like EditText, Button, Checkbox

public void setUnderLineText(TextView tv, String textToUnderLine) {
        String tvt = tv.getText().toString();
        int ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToUnderLine, 0);

        UnderlineSpan underlineSpan = new UnderlineSpan();
        SpannableString wordToSpan = new SpannableString(tv.getText());
        for (int ofs = 0; ofs < tvt.length() && ofe != -1; ofs = ofe + 1) {
            ofe = tvt.indexOf(textToUnderLine, ofs);
            if (ofe == -1)
                break;
            else {
                wordToSpan.setSpan(underlineSpan, ofe, ofe + textToUnderLine.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                tv.setText(wordToSpan, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
            }
        }
    }

If you want

- Clickable underline text?

- Underline multiple parts of TextView?

Then Check This Answer

Answer 5

You can use UnderlineSpan from SpannableString class:

SpannableString content = new SpannableString(<your text>);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);

Then just use textView.setText(content);