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What's the equal of textView.setText( `(Html.fromHtml(htmlString , Html.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY)));`  in compose?

html parsing to AnnotatedString is not implemented. There are samples for building AnnotatedStrings here <https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-master-dev:ui/ui-text-core/samples/src/main/java/androidx/ui/text/samples/AnnotatedStringBuilderSamples.kt;l=125> and android's stock html -&gt; spanned implementation is here <https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:frameworks/base/core/java/android/text/Html.java;l=1?q=Html.java&amp;sq=&amp;ss=android>

Habib, have you made progress toward this? I'm also need to do this, but I've been putting it off.

No actually I asked this out of curiosity as I couldn't find any API for that when I've been studying `AnnotatedStrings`

I needed that for a Bullet thenI found
```        with(DensityAmbient.current) {
            // this box is acting as a character, so it's sized with font scaling (sp)
            Box(
                modifier = Modifier
                    .preferredSize(8.sp.toDp(), 8.sp.toDp())
                    .alignWithSiblings {
                        // Add an alignment "baseline" 1sp below the bottom of the circle
                        9.sp.toIntPx()
                    },
                backgroundColor = contentColor(),
                shape = CircleShape
            )
        }```
in JetNews sample.

I see. I'm looking into the possibility of converting a `SpannedString` to an `AnnotatedString`

Then you can use it more generically, e.g. for `Html.fromHtml` or <https://github.com/noties/Markwon|https://github.com/noties/Markwon>

Doesn't look like `AnnotatedString` has an equivalent of `ClickableSpan`. It appears you can only style text.

<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1587005708307600?thread_ts=1586993450.295200&amp;cid=CJLTWPH7S>

A `SpannedString` to `AnnotatedString` is going to be a lossy conversion, AnnotatedString is deliberately less open-ended to avoid a bunch of issues we had with `SpannedString`

Yeah, `SpannedString` is _very_ open-ended :laughing: I used it to implement Slack style tokenization once, which was neat, but felt unnerving considering the lack of an interface for spans.

not to mention the troubles that happen as soon as you want to parcel it.