Having a url appear in a UITextview - iphone

Question

This code works well to make a url appear in a UITextview
UITextView * descriptionTextView = [[UITextView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 50, 300, 300)];
descriptionTextView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
descriptionTextView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
descriptionTextView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica" size:16];
descriptionTextView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
descriptionTextView.text = #"Click to go to the google website, http://www.google.com ";
descriptionTextView.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo;
descriptionTextView.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
descriptionTextView.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyDone;
descriptionTextView.editable = NO;
descriptionTextView.tag = 1;
[self.view addSubview:descriptionTextView];
The problem is that I the whole url I write appears, http://www.google.com
Is there a way I can use just a single word to contain the link? So the user can only see 'Goggle' written in blue and when they click that work it opens safari.
Many Thanks,
-Code

Answer 1

you can do it use a UIWebview
use
- (void)loadHTMLString:(NSString *)string baseURL:(NSURL *)baseURL;
and code the whole message then wrap the link to
[webView.loadHTMLString:#"Google" baseURL:nil];

Answer 2

I know this is super old thread. UITextView supports rich text/HTML. You should create NSAttributedString and assign it to attributedText property to manipulate with non plain text content. Like so:
NSString *htmlString = #"<your HTML code>";
textView.attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:[htmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]
options:#{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: #(NSUTF8StringEncoding)}
documentAttributes:nil
error:nil];