Changing the color of the text in a textArea (swing).

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Hello there, i'm trying to change the color of the text in a text area. Yes, i know how to change the color of an entire text, but how we can change the color of a specific word or text?

e.g.: "Java is a great programming language." and i want to change the "Java" word to red color and the rest remain in black.

thanks for the helping.

Posted 10-May-11 3:19am

Nuno M. B. Graça

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Marc A. Brown · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10T03:31:00

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Either instantiate the JTextArea using the constructor that accepts a Document as a parameter or use the setDocument method to provide a document model (such as HTML) that will allow you to do fancy formatting.
Here is a link[^] to the documentation for Document. It should provide a starting point for you.

Posted 10-May-11 3:31am

Marc A. Brown

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[no name] 10-May-11 10:31am

thanks ...this is really what i wanted. Thanks for the work, now it's my time to work...

Marc A. Brown 10-May-11 10:34am

Awesome. Glad I could help. Don't forget to accept the answer!