Is there a simple way to create an NSAttributedString using markup on iOS?

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I would simply to add bold or italic to portions of my text. Is there some built in parse that makes this simple, as most the examples I've seen show about a page worth of code, which requires doing substring range calculations on the string. Ideally, I could do something like this:

label.attributedText = [NSAttributedString initWithXXX:@"Some **bold** and *italic text*"];

There is no built in way. DTCoreText can generate an NSAttributedString from HTML but the last time I checked, it wasn't set up for UIKit (although it is not that hard to convert it yourself, it is all just changing the attribute key names from kCTwhatever to NSwhatever) — borrrden
– borrrden, Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21

Daij-Djan · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-06 08:24:17Z

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https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTCoreText supports all the markup you can think of ^^

even css to NSAttributedString is possible.

See the attached Examples. It works fine with UIKit

answered May 6, 2013 at 8:24

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sobri · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-09 11:22:42Z

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MGPushParser in MGBoxKit supports this for bold, italics, underlining, and monospacing, and coloured text.

"**bold**, //italics//, __underlined__, `monospaced`, and {#0000FF|blue}"

edited Oct 9, 2013 at 11:22

answered May 6, 2013 at 8:13

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