React-native-render-html: onLinkPress needs to be clearly documented.

Created on 2 Oct 2018 · 11Comments · Source: meliorence/react-native-render-html

Can I make a suggestion:

On your docs Page there should be a section about onLinkPress that reads something like |

To enable the user to press a link, the LINKING library must be IMPORTED at the top of your code, as well as this line must appear in the HTML call statement like so:

        <HTML
          html={this.content}
          onLinkPress={(event, href)=>{
            Linking.openURL(href)
          }}
        />

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magicmiles

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Excelent.
One question: how could you get the link text, besides the href attribute? The text is valuable info too.

<a href="...">This here</a>

guille-alibrate on 16 Jan 2020

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@magicmiles thank you.

erhanbicer on 8 Nov 2018

I have troubles with this ...
Seems not works with the app is make with Expo :(

davidcort on 23 Jan 2019

@davidcort It's doing fine with expo but you must import Linking from expo not react-native
Example: import { Linking } from 'expo'

abzeede on 16 Feb 2019

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this post saved my morning. Thanks @magicmiles

intransitorio on 17 May 2019

Saved my bacon by providing this, THANK YOU!!! Worked awesome for phone linking too by providing the tel: in the href before the number.

cmejet on 20 May 2019

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Thanks for your example! Really help me.

Synaric on 31 Oct 2019

Excelent.
One question: how could you get the link text, besides the href attribute? The text is valuable info too.

<a href="...">This here</a>

guille-alibrate on 16 Jan 2020

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Excelent.
One question: how could you get the link text, besides the href attribute? The text is valuable info too.

<a href="...">This here</a>

Any Update on this?

Yab-kami on 25 Apr 2020

You're a legend @davidcort

Akira-25 on 14 Jul 2020

If you import Linking from react-native, it's work like a charm.

Fred-Reis on 16 Jul 2020

In react-native-render-html v5.0.0, onLinkPress defaults to a function invoking Linking.openURL, so there won't be a need for documenting this! See #442