how to remove underline for textview in android

Question

I have seen many questions regarding removing of underline for autolink of textview.

But for me, I am unable to remove underline for normal textview. I set the underline by:

textview.setPaintFlags(nameOnTemplateTextview.getPaintFlags() | Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);

Hi Sai Korlakunta . I added a new answer to your question. – Hossein Seifi May 26 '17 at 15:57 — Hossein Seifi, May 26 '17 at 15:57

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '17 at 19:32

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You can try

 textview.setPaintFlags(textview.getPaintFlags() & (~ Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG));

or more broadly just set,

textview.setPaintFlags(0) but the first option is more exact

answered Apr 05 '17 at 19:32

Dany Y

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In Kotlin: `textView.paintFlags = textView.paintFlags and Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG.inv()` – Albert Vila Calvo Sep 06 '19 at 12:00
That doesnt work for editTexts – Clark Battle Apr 05 '22 at 20:25
This does not work – Dantalian Jun 24 '22 at 14:00
It is not working on textview. – Samriddha Bajpai May 16 '23 at 05:05

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '17 at 08:12

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Here is technique you can try to remove underline from any textview or edit text using the given below example code snippet

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/et"
    android:layout_width="250dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
    android:hint="This is first EditText"
    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
    android:background="@null"
    />

Use of the attribute

android:background="@null"

you can remove underline from textview or edit text

You can also try putting transparent color to the background to remove underline beneath a textview.

answered Feb 03 '17 at 08:12

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There is a background color for textview so i cannot make it null. – Sai Korlakunta Jan 12 '18 at 07:26
In that case i am not sure about any specific solution but if you do'nt get any solution then in that case keep background: @null but put a framelayout below Textview and give background to that frame layout for this..good luck – Ali Nawaz Jan 17 '18 at 12:28
@JaiprakashSoni u mean for input type specified as phone number? – Ali Nawaz May 31 '18 at 08:01
Nope set auto link for phone number – Jaiprakash Soni May 31 '18 at 08:12
Doesn't make any changes on phone type. – Sam Chen Jul 04 '20 at 15:07
this doesn't work. I tried both android:background="@null" & android:background="@color/white" but it doesn't work. – Samriddha Bajpai May 16 '23 at 05:05

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '17 at 19:42

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Maybe it's too late to answer this good question but I share my experience; perhaps it might be helpful for some one.

There is a really practical and easy way to remove underline for a text. And that is: textview.setPaintFlags(View.INVISIBLE);

It works perfect for me.

answered May 25 '17 at 19:42

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It doesn't do anything – prasad_21 Feb 17 '20 at 21:47

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 12 '21 at 19:20

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="120px"
    android:autoLink="all"
    android:background="#00FFFFFF"
    android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:linksClickable="false"
    android:longClickable="false"
    android:textSize="30sp" />

If you have an underline problem, use this code in textview

android: autoLink = "all"

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 31 '22 at 17:50

I tried this way, it worked.

Just add android:background="@null" this line of code into your EditText xml.

See the example:

<EditText
           android:id="@+id/txt_search_field"
           android:lines="1"
           android:background="@null"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

how to remove underline for textview in android

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