Bold content not showing bold

Question

I am newbie in android. When I am getting the data from an URL then parse the HTML data and show the page contents using loadDataWithBaseURL().
But it's showing all data with the same formatting.

I used HTML tags in data.
The paragraph tag <p> and other tags are working fine, but the bold tag is not showing the contents in bold. I used <b> and </b> for bold.

How to show bold content as bold?

Here is the java code.

 final String ftext = "<html><body>"+ Html.fromHtml(storyText)+ "   </body></html>";
                webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
                webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("", ftext, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");
                webview.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

@Kristo1990 those tags are probably found inside `storyText` — Phantômaxx, Feb 11 '16 at 11:19
The thing is that if he hasn't included ` ` in his `storyText` then it will never be bold :) @Hrundi V. Bakshi — Kristo, Feb 11 '16 at 11:20
yes, storytext is a string variable and I am getting whole data in this variable after parse whole string using Html.fromHtml() function. — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 11:21
okay mate take a look on this post. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14371092/how-to-make-a-specific-text-on-textview-bold you might find the solution there because it is quite simple. Good luck. — Kristo, Feb 11 '16 at 11:22
@Kristo1990 All tags available in the data first I took all the Data as a string then parse the data using Html.fromHtml() function. — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 11:24
Yes take a look at the link I posted above please. It is all you need. — Kristo, Feb 11 '16 at 11:25
@Kristo1990 I d'nt want whole data bold only those content inside content should be bold this is my problem — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 11:28
@Vijay Prakash then pass only the data you want to be bold in your String... — Kristo, Feb 11 '16 at 11:30
`Html.fromHtml("This mixes your text/ID/whatever and this part will be italic. stuff");` something like this i guess would work. — Kristo, Feb 11 '16 at 11:32
@HrundiV.Bakshi, I included in my data becuase

wherever I used its working fine only I have problem with bold tags — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 11:32
Weird. Unless you're using *a font which doesn't have the bold glyphs*, it MUST work. — Phantômaxx, Feb 11 '16 at 11:34
@HrundiV.Bakshi, This is data fomat

This is the headline

story content

other story headline

.

whole story

. — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 11:53
Thanks Hrundi V. Bakshi,I am using Calibri font and showing whole data in webview. — Vijay Prakash, Feb 11 '16 at 12:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '16 at 12:46

As per your comments, you're using the font Calibri.

Calibri is not a monolithic, self contained font.
It's split into multiple ttf files, one per each variant.

So you have to include all of them or at least the ones you intend to use.

i.e.:

calibri.ttf
calibrib.ttf

Bold content not showing bold

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