Formatting text in NSTextView

Question

I have a case where i'm getting formatted text with <a href ...>, <em>, <br>, ", etc tags, and i'm showing it in a Text View. How can i apply these formats? If i can't, whats the most generic way to remove all these tags?

Thanks, Mustafa

Answer 1

If you want editable text you will have to parse it using a library like Tidy to get just an NSString and then pass that to UITextView's -setText: method

If you need to display HTML, use UIWebView.

If you want to edit HTML as formatted text you will have to roll your own or use private API's.

Answer 2

No, i just want to show the formatted text in non editable NSTextView. or maybe UIWebView, will it automatically handle tags like <em>?

Answer 3

UIWebView will handle all tags like a browser does. So you can use UIWebView.

Answer 4

How about if i want to give a rich text editable area? I can show rich text in a UIWebView (Thanks for the pointer guys).