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TextArea color VRS JEditorPane

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jstreich

jstreich

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I'm writing a basic chat (or rather I've written) server/client pair. Now I want to make the username appear in a different color and font style than the stuff the users are saying, and I want URLS to turn into links that will launch the webBrowser. I started out with a JTextArea, and then when I tried to upgrade to a JEditorPane that supports HTML text - but then the message section of the window was just blank.

The code:
Code: 
jTextPane.setText(jTextPane.getText() + 
&quot;<b><font color=&quot;blue&quot;>&lt;&quot; + userName + &quot;&gt;:</font></b>&quot;);

Basically an append. As far as I can see this should have worked, but since it didn't I must be missing something.

Thoughts?
 
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n/m... I figguered it out. Using a JEditorPane with a &quot;text/html&quot; document the tags
Code: 
<head>
</head>
<body>
are added to the beginning, and
Code: 
</body>
to the end, if not supplied by the user. So, trying to append using:
Code: 
 blah.setText(blah.getText() + &quot;<b>some HTML string</b>&quot;);
results in stuff being added after the close of the body tag, and thus any text appended in this fashion isn't rendered. In case anyone else has this question later.
 
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