How to underline a portion of text in a text field?

I have an application that uses iText to fill PDF form fields. One of these fields has some text with tags. I need the text enclosed in -tag to be underlined. How could I do that?

U>This text/U> should be underlined. 

Ordinary text fields do not support rich text. If you want the fields to remain interactive, you will need RichText fields. These are fields that are flagged in a way that they accept an RV value.

If it is OK for you to flatten the form (i.e. remove all interactivity), then your code will look like this:

public void createPdf(String src, String dest) throws Exception {
    PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(src), new PdfWriter(dest));
    Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc);

    PdfAcroForm form = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(pdfDoc, true);
    form.flattenFields();

    Rectangle pos = form.getField("Name").getWidgets().get(0).getRectangle().toRectangle();

    SAXParser parser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
    InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader("

")); parser.parse(is, new CustomHandler(doc, pos)); pdfDoc.close(); }

Take a note that we use javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser to parse the HTML and put the CustomHandler instance as the second parameter. CustomHandler extends the org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler and overrides required methods for [blockcode]

public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
            throws SAXException {
        if ("div".equals(qName)) {
            document.add(paragraph.setFixedPosition(position.getLeft(), position.getBottom(), position.getWidth()));
            position.moveDown(20);
            paragraph = new Paragraph();
        } else if ("u".equals(qName)) {
            isUnderlined = false;
        }
    }