Java – Android adds padding across text

In my application, I take and parse the html content and display it using Spanned.
I use Spanned:

String html = "<p>Html Content</p>"
Spanned htmlSpan = Html.fromHtml(html, imageParser, null);

I’ve tried using the Apache Commons Library to set up padding but it didn’t work.

Is there any way to set up left and right padding?

Edit: Forgot to mention, I also have images in that html content. I tried adding padding to the TextView itself, but that way, all images also had fills.

In general, the easiest solution to

display HTML is to use WebView. This is not the best solution, but it also works with CSS and JavaScript.

In TextView, you can use <blockquote to apply padding across text, > which Html.fromHtml() will be converted to QuoteSpan . You can replace it and add your own LeadingMarginSpan implementation. It’s the same by adding a TagHandler. Create and process your own tags on spannable strings.

You can search for and replace spans similar to the following

 QuoteSpan[] spans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), QuoteSpan.class);
text.setSpan(YOUR_SPAN, text.getSpanStart(spans[0]), text.getSpanEnd(spans[0]), 0);

There is little documentation and few tutorials using span, but you can check out this for further reading.