Display HTML text in UILabel iphone

Question

I am getting a HTML Response from a webservice Below is the HTML I am getting in response

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Answer 1

You can do it without any third-party libraries by using attributed text. I believe it does accept HTML fragments, like the one you're getting, but you may want to wrap it in a complete HTML document so that you can specify CSS:

static NSString *html =
    @""
     "  "
     "    "
     "  "
     "  Here is some formatting!"
     "";

UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 300, 200)];
NSError *err = nil;
label.attributedText =
    [[NSAttributedString alloc]
              initWithData: [html dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
                   options: @{ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType }
        documentAttributes: nil
                     error: &err];
if(err)
    NSLog(@"Unable to parse label text: %@", err);

Not concise, but you can mop up the mess by adding a category to UILabel:

@implementation UILabel (Html)

- (void) setHtml: (NSString*) html
    {
    NSError *err = nil;
    self.attributedText =
        [[NSAttributedString alloc]
                  initWithData: [html dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
                       options: @{ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType }
            documentAttributes: nil
                         error: &err];
    if(err)
        NSLog(@"Unable to parse label text: %@", err);
    }

@end

…

[someLabel setHtml:@"Be bold!"];