Question

Is there a quick and dirty way to render HTML in a textblock in a fashion similar to Android’s Html.fromHtml()? I am aware of how to manually parse it with something like the HtmlAgilityPack, but all I really want is for it to render like its source in the textblock.

If not naively then perhaps with a custom control of some sort and, no I don’t want to render it as a web page.

Answer 1

Ok sorry it took so long. I all but forgot how to use git correctly and hadn’t had the time to upload till now. This HtmlTextBlock offers a similar level of functionality as to that of its silverlight counterpart which is pretty close to the android equivalent. Its still a bit buggy at times when dealing with more complex tags like the html dtd tag but does the job….
WP7 Html Text Block. The design is largely based on this guy’s Bringing-a-bit-of-html-to-silverlight-htmltextblock-makes-rich-text-display-easy. and rewriting the web browser related classes using html agility. One day I’ll post the details but, blah… Not right now. lol

Update

Example of usage:

<local:HtmlTextBlock x:Name="htmlTextBlock" Canvas.Left="2" Canvas.Top="2" TextWrapping="Wrap" UseDomAsParser="true" Text="&ltp&gtYour Html here &lt/p&gt" />

Note: Your html will have to be escaped such that &lt = < and &gt = >

For detailed usage see:

https://github.com/musicm122/WP7HtmlTextBlock-/blob/master/HtmlTextBlockTest/HtmlTextBlockTest/MainPage.xaml