MWX.XamForms.HtmlLabel

HtmlLabel an ultra lightweight implementation of converting html tags to Spans for an FormattedTextLabel. The idea is to enable formatting for localized strings in ressource-files of an app.

The Html Label supports adding HtmlText with the small list of supported features of the FormattedString in Xamarin Forms.

In the Test Appplication you can check the support of the Tags because there are only small Feeaturelist.

Build State:

NuGet

The Control is available as NuGet Package MWX.XamForms.HtmlLabel here https://www.nuget.org/packages/MWX.XamForms.HtmlLabel/

Released:

Html-Label Properties

HtmlText (string)

HtmlText to Display

IgnoreNewlines (bool)

configures if newlines in the HTML-Text should stay there or not (default true -> ignore them).

XAML Usage

simply add the XmlNamespace

  xmlns:html="clr-namespace:MWX.XamForms.Controls;assembly=MWX.XamForms.HtmlLabel"

and then use it like a normal Label.

  <html:HtmlLabel HtmlText="{Binding Text, Source={x:Reference htmlInput}}" />

Screenshots

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Supported Html-Tags

<span>

inline container for "style"-Attributes.

<b>

bold text

<i>

italic text

<br>

make a linebreak

Supported 'style'-Attributes

background-color

configure the BackgroundColor as HexNumber (not supported by Xamarin.Forms.Label by UWP)

color

configure the Foreground-/Text-Color as HexNumber

font-weight

supported values : bold, normal

font-style

supported values : italic, normal

font-family

configure the font family (Attention that is platform specific function)

font-size

configure the font size (ignoring any em,pt or px unit given)

final thoughts and who i am

I will try to add more features soon and add more HTML-Tag-Support (Headlines and perhaps Lists) - but for the moment thats enough. ;) if you've any ideas, comment, whatever please conact me email. And if you want more information about me look at my website Marekworks.at