Alignment in Html.fromHtml()

Question

Is alignment working in HTML.fromHtml() in a TextView?

I tried

<div align="center"><p>Test</p></div>

and some variaties of this, including putting the alignment tabs without parenthesis to the paragraph tag, but none worked. The text is always left.

Thanks for any help!

Yours.

Answer 1

If someone wants to align text in center with color red then one may use code below.

String centerNRed = "<div style='text-align:center' ><span style='color:red' >Hello World Its me.....</span></div>";
txt1.setText(Html.fromHtml(centerNRed));

Answer 2

To set alignment in textview first set textview width to match_parent and then use text-align option in your HTML tag. something like this:

<div style="text-align: center">this text should be in center of view</div>

Update: This solution just work in android 7 and above :|

Answer 3

Alignment is not supported in HTML text in TextView.

Answer 4

Although it is possible to use alignment using a webview instead of a TextView, and loading the html from a file placed in assets:

public class ViewWeb extends Activity {
    WebView webview;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.webview);

       webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
       webview.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");
    }
}

Answer 5

For API 24 and below, add a gravity attribute to the TextView layout element

      android:gravity="center_horizontal"

For API 24 and above, can use a style within the HTML.

  String centeredHtml = "<div style=\"text-align: center\">" + myFormattedHtml + "</div>";
  textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(centeredHtml));

But gravity is also supported up to at least API 26.