14.12. The JEditorPane Component
JEditorPane is sort of a fancy text area that can display text derived from different file formats. The built-in version supports HTML and RTF (Rich Text Format) only, but you can build “editor kits” to handle special-purpose applications. In principle, you choose the type of document you want to display by calling setContentType, and you specify a custom editor kit through setEditorKit. Note that unless you extend the JEditorPane class, the only legal choices are text/html, text/plain, (which is also what you get if you supply an unknown type), and text/rtf.
In practice, however, JEditorPane is almost always used for displaying HTML. If you have plain text, you might as well use JTextField. RTF support is currently ...
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