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Linebreaks are ignored in Html.fromHtml

I receive a text with linebreaks from an API but I can't get the linebreaks to work.

This is a part of the text I want to shown. http://pastebin.com/CLnq16mP (pasted it there because the formatting on stackoverflow wasnt correct.)

I tried this:

termsAndConditionsTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<html><body>" + textResponse.getText() + "</body></html>"));

and this:

termsAndConditionsTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(textResponse.getText()));

but the linebreaks (\r\n) and spaces are always ignored.

How can I fix this?

Solution

  • Since its html try using

    </br>

    You can replace all \r\n and spaces in your text by doing something like this:

        //message is your string.

    message = message.replace("\r\n","<br />");
    message = message.replace(" ","&nbsp;");
    termsAndConditionsTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(message));

    Good Luck!