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Asked: 2026-06-02T12:20:30+00:00

I want to use HTML in my TextView (sub- and superscript). The problem is,

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I want to use HTML in my TextView (sub- and superscript). The problem is, that I only want to use XML when coding my UI elements: I don’t want to use HTML.fromHtml(...);.

The string I have in my resources is the following code:

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<string name="buttonY1"><![CDATA[<html><i>Y</i><sup>2</sup></html>]]></string>
...

The XML code is:

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<TextView android:text="@string/buttonY1"
                      android:textSize="20sp"
                      android:gravity="center_horizontal"></TextView>
...

When I debug my app, the text shows plain text (with the tags still in it), and not the parsed HTML. Any solutions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Simple remove the CDATA part, just include the tags as they are e.g.:

    <string name="lorem_short"><sub>Lorem</sub> ipsum dolor <sup>sit</sup> amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr</string>
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