Can i display a String in html format?

Esko2300 · 05-25-2011, 10:35 AM

Ok heres the situation. I grab various strings from the server and display it on screen. Now what i want to do is Display Any strings that come in with html tags in html format.
Example:
Say i get the string <b>Hello World</b> from the server. Now i want to display the String Hello World in Bold format in a UILabel. Is there a way for me to do this? or do i have to write my own string functions that would search for a Html tag and convert the String accordingly.

harrytheshark · 05-25-2011, 10:41 AM

Take a look at this project on GitHub. It takes HTML, parses it, then uses Core Text to actually draw it with the various styles.

https://github.com/Cocoanetics/NSAtt...tions-for-HTML

dany_dev · 05-25-2011, 10:48 AM

or you can consider to use a standard UIWebView.

Esko2300 · 05-25-2011, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dany_dev

or you can consider to use a standard UIWebView.

Ok so how would i do that? Would i just place a UILabel over a UIWEbview but i dont know how that would even work correctly. Im taking various values from the server and some happen to have HTML Properties to it. I guess what im asking is how would i go about Displaying a String in a UIWebView? cause all i see is ways to display webpages and not an string

dany_dev · 05-25-2011, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esko2300

Ok so how would i do that? Would i just place a UILabel over a UIWEbview but i dont know how that would even work correctly. Im taking various values from the server and some happen to have HTML Properties to it. I guess what im asking is how would i go about Displaying a String in a UIWebView? cause all i see is ways to display webpages and not an string

something like

Code:

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html> <head><title></title></head><body><p align=\"left\">%@</p></body></html>",yourFormattedString];
	
html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"<br/>"];  
	
[yourWebView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

Esko2300 · 05-27-2011, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dany_dev

something like

Code:

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html> <head><title></title></head><body><p align=\"left\">%@</p></body></html>",yourFormattedString];
	
html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"<br/>"];  
	
[yourWebView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

Cool thanks ill check it out today and tell you how it went