Set a string to bold in JTextArea?

Question

I don't want to set the entire text area to bold but just a selected single line. How would go about doing that?

See also this [example](http://stackoverflow.com/a/15600689/230513) using `JTextPane`. — trashgod, Apr 26 '13 at 10:44

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 00:10

I suggest using a JTextPane instead as there are example solutions for it: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/editorpane.html http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/JTextPaneStylesExample6.htm

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 00:05

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There is no way to do it with JTextArea. You can achieve this with JEditorPane.

JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane();
editorPane.setContentType("text/html");
editorPane.setText("<b>This text is bold</b>");

answered Apr 26 '13 at 00:05

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 26 '13 at 00:06

According to the documentation of JTextArea,

A JTextArea is a multi-line area that displays plain text.

plain text, in this sense, means every character is formated the same way. There is no way to format some characters differently than other characters.

Set a string to bold in JTextArea?

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