Underlining Edit Text

[Sahil Reddy]

Hello Pals

I want to set text in Edit box as Underline , so that when user types anything in Edit text box, it appears as Underlined.

For instance when i setTextSize(26); , when user types anything it shows text in size =26. Now i want to achieve the same thing for Underlining.

Regards

[Mario Alcantara]

You need an object of type Editable, this object will store the text that the user typed and also need an objecto of type StyleSpan. The StyleSpan class allow you use different styles over your EditText component, here a very small example:

//Create a Editable object
Editable str = Editable.Factory.getInstance().newEditable("Esto es un simulacro.");
 
//Apply the Typeface.BOLD Style to the word "simulacro"
str.setSpan(new StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), 11, 19, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

//Assign the "text with style" to EditText component
final EditText txtTexto = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.TxtTexto);
txtTexto.setText(str);

Sorry, my english isn't good
source: http://www.sgoliver.net/blog/?p=1373