JEditorPane - The Editor Pane Class

Java Swing Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟JEditorPane - The Editor Pane Class

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on the editor pane class. Topics include a simple text editor pane; saving text from the editor pane to a file; editing HTML content and Chinese characters in editor pane; using file chooser dialog boxes.

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Creating a Simple Plain Text Editor Pane

Saving Text from an Editor Pane

Editing HTML in an Editor Pane

Editing Unicode Characters in an Editor Pane

javax.swing.JFileChooser - File Chooser Dialog Box

Takeaways:

javax.swing.JEditorPane class can be used to create a simple text editor window.
setText() and getText() methods can be used to exchange the text content of a JEditorPane window.
setContentType() method can be used to switch the display mode of a JEditorPane window between text/html and text/plain.
javax.swing.JFileChooser class can be used to display a dialog box for selecting a file on the local computer.