html.fromhtml highlights links not working

Question

I have a link inside a Textview, when i'd clicked it work(open the link) but do not highlight color arround the link before open.

that's my code:

text.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href='http://google.com'>Google</a> example of link");

Answer 1

This should work.

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">This is a link</a>"));
textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

From Gunnar 's solution.

Answer 2

Add this line to make it work -

htmlContent.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Answer 3

You can try to use android:textColorHighlight="yourColorHere" on your TextView