How to add vertical lines to the left of my text?

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How to add vertical lines to the left of my text?
I am showing a blockquote html in a TextView dynamically.

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You could also use a **compound drawable** (`drawableLeft`, in this case), and save on an extra View. — Phantômaxx, Aug 11 '16 at 12:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '16 at 12:22

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Place on left of your textView and use your desired dimensions and color.

     <View
        android:layout_width="2dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"></View>

answered Aug 11 '16 at 12:22

Sohail Zahid

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want to create textview dynamically, set text from html. – Aug 11 '16 at 12:32

Anurag Shrivastava · Answer 2 · 2016-08-11T13:10:20.787

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use

    <View android:id="@+id/view"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:layout_width="1dp"
          android:background="#000000" />

use webview for Html text

    WebView webview = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.webview);
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("", data, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

here is the code you want

      String a = "You can ";
      String b = "change" ; 
      String c = "like this" ; 
      String d = "if want to make it bold"; 
      String sourceString = a + " " + "<b>" + b + "</b>" + " " + c + " " + "<b>" + d + "</b>"; 
      textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(sourceString));

it will look like

You can change like this if want to make it bold

edited Aug 11 '16 at 13:10

answered Aug 11 '16 at 12:23

Anurag Shrivastava

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want to create textview dynamically, set text from html. – Aug 11 '16 at 12:32
without using webview – Aug 11 '16 at 12:59
@BincyBaby You can add a `textview` and set text as `.setText(Html.fromHtml("Your html string"))` – hrskrs Aug 11 '16 at 13:04
what exactly you want to do. please explain @BincyBaby – Anurag Shrivastava Aug 11 '16 at 13:17

hrskrs · Answer 3 · 2016-08-11T13:06:51.513

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You can use View:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:padding="10dp"
  android:orientation="horizontal">

  <View   
    android:layout_gravity="right"
    android:background="#000000"
    android:layout_width="2dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

  <TextView
   android:text="balblalblablalblablalblalb"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

It will look like:

For showing Html you can do as following:

yourTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("your html string"));

edited Aug 11 '16 at 13:06

answered Aug 11 '16 at 12:26

hrskrs

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want to create textview dynamically, set text from html. – Aug 11 '16 at 12:32
You can create `TextView` dynamically like: `TextView t = new TextView(context);` than set `LayoutParams` based on your needs – hrskrs Aug 11 '16 at 12:38

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 11 '16 at 13:28

Step 1: Add a Linear layout in a layout.
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/linear_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_margin="10dp">

</LinearLayout> 
step2:In Activity , create TextView and a View dynamically  add to linear layout
 LinearLayout mylayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linear_layout);

    TextView text = new TextView(this);
    text.setText("Testing");

    View view = new View(this);
    view.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
    view.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(5, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

    mylayout.addView(view,0);
    mylayout.addView(text,1);

Hope it helps!

How to add vertical lines to the left of my text?

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