Set underline text to TextView in android programmatically

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I want to know how to set underline text to TextView in android? Please make a note that I don't have capability to set a strings.xml with pre-populated strings is there any way to add it with pure java code in Android.

Please, take a look at this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394935/can-i-underline-text-in-an-android-layout — Yngwie89, Oct 20 '12 at 14:56
6 Ways - [Underline a TextView In Android](https://androidride.com/underline-a-textview-in-android/) — Vijay Ram, Aug 18 '19 at 03:02

score 126 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 23 '23 at 10:16

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Try this code:

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

edited Jan 23 '23 at 10:16

Rumit Patel

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answered Oct 20 '12 at 14:48

yahya.can

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what about remove underline? – Pratik Butani Mar 28 '14 at 10:08
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textview.setTypeface(Typeface.NORMAL); – Developers Park Mar 28 '14 at 10:17
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score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '12 at 14:56

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Here is the simplest way

TextView theTextView = new TextView(this);

theTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml("<u>Text to underline</u>"));

answered Oct 20 '12 at 14:56

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Method "fromHtml" was deprecated – prsnlme Oct 05 '21 at 21:04

score 21 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 10 '19 at 06:22

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Kotlin way

textview.paintFlags = Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG

edited Jul 10 '19 at 06:22

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answered Jul 10 '19 at 06:00

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This disrupts the font better to use spannableString – Emmanuel Conradie Dec 20 '22 at 22:58

score 20 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 20 '12 at 14:53

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Just try this:

TextView myTextView = new TextView(this);
SpannableString mySpannableString = new SpannableString("My String");
mySpannableString.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, mySpannableString.length(), 0);
myTextView.setText(mySpannableString);

answered Oct 20 '12 at 14:53

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score 9 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 09 '18 at 10:36

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i don't know if somebody is still interested in this topic, but i disovered that

textview.setTypeface(Typeface.NORMAL); did not work for me.

My solution was this snippet textView.setPaintFlags(0);

edited Mar 09 '18 at 10:36

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answered Feb 24 '16 at 11:01

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Thanks for sharing. I faced the same problem. – Andrain May 07 '17 at 18:03

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 05 '21 at 21:11

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This is Kotlin extension to underline text

fun String.underLine(): SpannableString {
    val spanStr = SpannableString(this)
    spanStr.setSpan(UnderlineSpan(), 0, spanStr.length, 0)
    return spanStr
}

answered Oct 05 '21 at 21:11

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 16 '21 at 01:17

for kotlin .. put underline for textview or String Using HtmlCompat.fromHtml() method

val html = "<u> The text you want to underline </u>"
textview11.text = HtmlCompat.fromHtml(html, HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY)

for layout xml

<string name="text_underline"><u> The text you want to underline </u></string>

Set underline text to TextView in android programmatically

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