How to set underline text on textview?

Question

How to set underline text on textview?

I have used following code but it is not working.

tvHide.setText(Html.fromHtml("


        

Answer 1

Following are the some approaches for underlined text in android:

1st Approach

You can define your string in strings.xml

Underlined text

And use that string in your xml file

Or you can use that string in your Activity/Fragment

txtView.setText(R.string.your_string);

2nd Approach

To underline the text in TextView, you can use SpannableString

String text="Underlined Text";
SpannableString content = new SpannableString(text);
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, text.length(), 0);
txtView.setText(content);

3rd Approach

You can make use of setPaintFlags method of TextView to underline the text of TextView.

txtView.setPaintFlags(mTextView.getPaintFlags() | Paint.UNDERLINE_TEXT_FLAG);
txtView.setText("Underlined Text");

4th Approach

Make use of Html.fromHtml(htmlString);

String htmlString="Underlined Text";
txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml(htmlString));

Or

txtView.setText(Html.fromHtml("underlined text"));

Note:

If you have added this line android:textAllCaps="true" in your layout, then none of the above will work. For that, you have to define your string in Caps and then any of the above approach.