UITextView linkTextAttributes font attribute not applied to NSAttributedString

Question

I have an NSAttributedString generated from HTML which includes some links. The attributed string is shown in a UITextView. I wish to apply a different font style f

Answer 1

Updated for Swift 4:

let originalText = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: textView.attributedText)
var newString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: textView.attributedText)

originalText.enumerateAttributes(in: NSRange(0..<originalText.length), options: .reverse) { (attributes, range, pointer) in
    if let _ = attributes[NSAttributedString.Key.link] {
        newString.removeAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.font, range: range)
        newString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.font, value: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 30), range: range)
    }
}

self.textView.attributedText = newString // updates the text view on the vc

Answer 2

For some reason postprocessing attributed string with enumerateAttributesInRange: do not work for me.

So I used NSDataDetector to detect link and enumerateMatchesInString:options:range:usingBlock: to put my style for all links in string. Here is my processing function:

+ (void) postProcessTextViewLinksStyle:(UITextView *) textView {
   NSAttributedString *attributedString = textView.attributedText;
   NSMutableAttributedString *attributedStringWithItalicLinks = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:attributedString];

   NSError *error = nil;
   NSDataDetector *detector = [NSDataDetector dataDetectorWithTypes:NSTextCheckingTypeLink
                                                           error:&error];

   [detector enumerateMatchesInString:[attributedString string]
                           options:0
                             range:NSMakeRange(0, [attributedString length])
                        usingBlock:^(NSTextCheckingResult *match, NSMatchingFlags flags, BOOL *stop){
                            NSRange matchRange = [match range];
                            NSLog(@"Links style postprocessing. Range (from: %lu, length: %lu )", (unsigned long)matchRange.location, (unsigned long)matchRange.length);
                            if ([match resultType] == NSTextCheckingTypeLink) {                                    
                                [attributedStringWithItalicLinks removeAttribute:NSFontAttributeName range:matchRange];
                                [attributedStringWithItalicLinks addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:@"YourFont-Italic" size:14.0f] range:matchRange];
                            }
                        }];

   textView.attributedText = attributedStringWithItalicLinks;
}