How to remove underline for url link

[crossle]

• Markwon version: 4.2.1

The link style always have underline, how to remove the underline for the link?

[noties]

Hello @crossle !

There are at least 2 options:

• override current styling (keep original link span)
• provide own implementation of span for links

Anyway you start by creating a new plugin:

final Markwon markwon = Markwon.builder(context)
        .usePlugin(new AbstractMarkwonPlugin() {
            @Override
            public void configureSpansFactory(@NonNull MarkwonSpansFactory.Builder builder) {
                final SpanFactory original = builder.getFactory(Link.class);
                if (original != null) {
                    builder.setFactory(Link.class, (configuration, props) -> {
                        // reversed order
                        return new Object[] {
                                new RemoveUnderlineSpan(),
                                original.getSpans(configuration, props)
                        };
                    });
                }

                // or, you can provide own implementation for LinkSpan by calling:
//                builder.setFactory(Link.class, new SpanFactory() {
//                    @Nullable
//                    @Override
//                    public Object getSpans(@NonNull MarkwonConfiguration configuration, @NonNull RenderProps props) {
//                        TODO()
//                    }
//                });
            }
        })
        .build();

Please note that the first option needs to return spans in reversed order (added first will be processed last)

public class RemoveUnderlineSpan extends CharacterStyle implements UpdateAppearance {
    @Override
    public void updateDrawState(TextPaint tp) {
        tp.setUnderlineText(false);
    }
}

[crossle]

Coool, got it. Thanks

[noties]

UPD: in 4.2.2-SNAPSHOT version (which should be soon available), there will be 2 new methods in MarkwonSpansFactory:

• appendFactory
• prependFactory

So, taking into consideration these additions, code could be rewritten as:

builder.appendFactory(Link.class, (configuration, props) -> new RemoveUnderlineSpan());

[crossle]

@noties BTW, RecyclerView does not support GitHub task list format ?

[noties]

@crossle Markwon supports task lists via ext-tasklist plugin. RecyclerView does not require any special handling for them to be displayed

[crossle]

@noties OK, thanks.

[crossle]

@noties Other question, How to support text selection in RecyclerView? I add markdown item TextView add android:textIsSelectable true, but it's conflict with the markdown url link.

[noties]

@crossle can you please explain the conflict, how is text selection conflicts with links?

[crossle]

I set android:textIsSelectable="true", but the url link does not click, it's just selected.

[noties]

@crossle the problem might be with the MovementMethod. Markwon will automatically apply one if it's missing after markdown is applied to a TextView. And this works in most cases. Until you have text selection enabled. So here you can try setting MovementMethod before markdown is applied:

// for example in `onCreateHolder`, so this is done once per `TextView`
holder.textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

// then in `onBind` apply your markdown as usual:
markwon.setMarkdown(holder.textView, markdown);

[crossle]

How to set on recyclerview?

[noties]

You don't set it on RecyclerView, you set it on the TextView with markdown content inside RecyclerView