HTML Tags Supported By TextView

There is a lovely method on the android.text.Html class, fromHtml(), that converts HTML into a Spannable for use with a TextView.

However, the documentation does not stipulate what HTML tags are supported, which makes this method a bit hit-or-miss. More importantly, it means that you cannot rely on what it will support from release to release.

I have filed an issue requesting that Google formally document what it intends to support. In the interim, from a quick look at the source code, here’s what seems to be supported as of Android 2.1:

• <a href="...">
• <b>
• <big>
• <blockquote>
• <br>
• <cite>
• <dfn>
• <div align="...">
• <em>
• <font size="..." color="..." face="...">
• <h1>
• <h2>
• <h3>
• <h4>
• <h5>
• <h6>
• <i>
• <img src="...">
• <p>
• <small>
• <strike>
• <strong>
• <sub>
• <sup>
• <tt>
• <u>