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

Question

I am scraping 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!!

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.