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Android TextView's subscript being clipped off

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-around for this?

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P/S: Superscripts work fine

Note: padding doesn't work.

  • I tried even adding a padding of 50dip but it did not help.
  • I can use an absolute height such as 50dip but that messes everything up when I need text to wrap around.

Sample Code:

mtTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("HC0<sub>3</sub>"));

Solution

  • This solution worked for me.

    Superscripted text is usually made smaller when the browser renders it, that doesn't seem to happen here so you can replicate that (and solve this problem) by doing this:

    someTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("Some text<sup><small>1</small></sup>"));