How do you underline a text in Android XML?

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Michael Zeuner picture Michael Zeuner · Apr 4, 2012 · Viewed 151.9k times · Source

How do you underline a text in an XML file? I can't find an option in textStyle.

Answer

George Artemiou picture George Artemiou · Apr 4, 2012

If you are using a string resource xml file (supports HTML tags), it can be done using<b> </b>, <i> </i> and <u> </u>.

<resources>
    <string name="your_string_here">
        This is an <u>underline</u>.
    </string>
</resources>

If you want to underline something from code use:

TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.tv);
SpannableString content = new SpannableString("Content");
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);
tv.setText(content);

Hope this helps

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