How to display html formatted text in text area of java application?

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  •  19-09-2019
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Question

I am scrapping data from web site using my java application and want to display the result after parsing code of html page in a Text Area made in Swing.

Text like: hello <b>every</b>one should be displayed as: 'hello everyone' in text area. Thanks!!

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Solution

You can use a JEditorPane to display HTML or a JTextPane, which allows you to set attributes for specific characters. Read the API and you will find a link to the Swing tutorial which provides examples.

OTHER TIPS

JEditorPane ep = new JEditorPane();
ep.setContentType("text/html");
ep.setText("html code");

There is no way to see formated text inside of textarea( text in name of tag mean text not html). If you don't need to submit code inside area - you can use some style magic for div element. If you need to submit - use some WYSIWYG editor. There is free one FCK

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