Cocoa: Display HTML from string

Question

How can I display properly formatted text from an NSString, that just happens to be HTML. The html is coming from the stack overflow API.

Answer 1

You can create a NSAttributedString from HTML. You then draw it as you would draw any other NSAttributedString.

Answer 2

If your tags are accurate and you are programming for OS X (or iPhone 4.0+), you can use NSAttributedString's – initWithHTML:documentAttributes:, and then draw that directly.

Unfortunately, the iPhone OS' UIKit does not contain NSAttributedString pre-4.0. The current recommendation from the developer docs is to use a UIWebView, which sucks. An alternative might be the Three20 library, which contains TTStyledText -- that looks like it might do the job.

Answer 3

You could have a WebView, and tell the WebView's mainFrame to load the HTML string.

If you meant to ask about Cocoa Touch, UIWebView has an equivalent method for you.