textcolor - how to create textview link without underscore in android -

i came wired situation, code follow

linearlayout ll = new linearlayout(this); textview tv = new textview(this); ll.addview(tv); tv.settext(html.fromhtml("<a style=\"text-decoration:none;\" href=\""          + stringescapeutils.escapejava(elem.getchildtext("newslink")) + "\">"                  + stringescapeutils.escapejava(elem.getchildtext("title")) + "</a>")); tv.settextcolor(color.black); 

but style="text-decoration:none" , tv.settextcolor(color.black)both not working, link still in blue underscore, hints on why they're not working? thanks!

you can try this. such as

string content = "your <a href='http://some.url'>html</a> content"; 

here concise way remove underlines hyperlinks:

spannable s = (spannable) html.fromhtml(content); (urlspan u: s.getspans(0, s.length(), urlspan.class)) {     s.setspan(new underlinespan() {         public void updatedrawstate(textpaint tp) {             tp.setunderlinetext(false);         }     }, s.getspanstart(u), s.getspanend(u), 0); } tv.settext(s);