how to create textview link without underscore in android

Question

i came into this wired situation, my code is as follow

LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
ll.addView(tv);
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a STYLE=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\"" 
        + StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(elem.getChildText("newsLink")) + "\">" 
                + StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(elem.getChildText("Title")) + "</a>"));
tv.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

but the style="text-decoration:none" and tv.setTextColor(color.black)both not working, the link is still in blue with underscore, any hints on why they're not working? Thanks!

Answer 1

you can try this. such as

String content = "your <a href='http://some.url'>html</a> content";

Here is a concise way to remove underlines from hyperlinks:

Spannable s = (Spannable) Html.fromHtml(content);
for (URLSpan u: s.getSpans(0, s.length(), URLSpan.class)) {
    s.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan() {
        public void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp) {
            tp.setUnderlineText(false);
        }
    }, s.getSpanStart(u), s.getSpanEnd(u), 0);
}
tv.setText(s);