Swift: Display HTML data in a label or textView
Here is a Swift 3 version:
private func getHtmlLabel(text: String) -> UILabel {
let label = UILabel()
label.numberOfLines = 0
label.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
label.attributedString = stringFromHtml(string: text)
return label
}
private func stringFromHtml(string: String) -> NSAttributedString? {
do {
let data = string.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: true)
if let d = data {
let str = try NSAttributedString(data: d,
options: [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType],
documentAttributes: nil)
return str
}
} catch {
}
return nil
}
I found issues with some of the other answers here and it took me a bit to get this right. I set the line break mode and number of lines so that the label sized appropriately when the HTML spanned multiple lines.
For Swift 5:
extension String {
var htmlToAttributedString: NSAttributedString? {
guard let data = data(using: .utf8) else { return nil }
do {
return try NSAttributedString(data: data, options: [.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html, .characterEncoding:String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue], documentAttributes: nil)
} catch {
return nil
}
}
var htmlToString: String {
return htmlToAttributedString?.string ?? ""
}
}
Then, whenever you want to put HTML text in a UITextView use:
textView.attributedText = htmlText.htmlToAttributedString