android : fromhtml is leaving font details in the string

Question

I am converting html string using Html.fromHtml(sBody) to add it to an edittext . I need editext , so I cant use webview to loaddata .

et.setText(Html.fromHtml(sBody));

What I see is the converted text has some font detail added in the beginning . sample data is :

!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face   {font-family:"Cambria Math";    panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face   {font-family:Calibri;   panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face

how can I remove this .

please help

Answer 1

how can i remove this

Remove it yourself from the HTML before passing it to Html.fromHtml() .

Html.fromHtml() does not handle all possible HTML, nor is it meant to. It only deals with the subset of HTML tags that are relevant for TextView and its subclasses. Other stuff -- in this case, some inline CSS -- it is going to largely ignore, which may leave it as visible text.

So, find yourself an HTML parser and strip out unnecessary cruft.