How to strip or escape html tags in Android

Question

PHP has strip_tags function which strips HTML and PHP tags from a string.

Does Android have a way to escape html?

Answer 1

The solutions in the answer linked to by @sparkymat generally require either regex - which is an error-prone approach - or installing a third-party library such as jsoup or jericho. A better solution on Android devices is just to make use of the Html.fromHtml() function:

public String stripHtml(String html) {     if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {        return Html.fromHtml(html, Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY).toString();     } else {        return Html.fromHtml(html).toString();     } } 

This uses Android's built in Html parser to build a Spanned representation of the input html without any html tags. The "Span" markup is then stripped by converting the output back into a string.

As discussed here, Html.fromHtml behaviour has changed since Android N. See the documentation for more info.

Answer 2

Sorry for the late post, but i think this might help for others,

To just remove the html strips

Html.fromHtml(htmltext).toString() 

This way the html tag will be replaced with string, but the string willnot be formatted properly. Hence i did

Html.fromHtml(htmltext).toString().replaceAll("\n", "").trim() 

This way i first replace with nextline with blankspace and removed blank space. Similarly you can remove others.