CSS Style in JTable cell

Question

I am trying to put HTML into a JTable cell, I have tested this piece of code in IE, but the thing is, it doesn't appear as it should in a table cell. Can I confirm that it doesn't work in a table cell? Below is the HTML.

<html>
<style>
div {
    *display: inline; /* For IE7 */
    display:inline-block;
    width: 50%;
    text-align: center;
</style>
  <div>A</div><div>B</div>
  <div>A1</div><div>B1</div>
  <div>A2</div><div>B2</div>
</html>

I have also tried to put the style inside the <div>, it works in IE but not the table cell. Can anyone help?

Swing only has limited support for HTML at around 3.2 I think, it's likely that CSS isn't supported (if at all, not very highly) — MadProgrammer, Mar 20 '14 at 07:05
*"it works in IE but.."* Ignore what 'works in IE'. IE was designed to take any old crap and make a good attempt at guessing what the author meant. If you want to know that HTML 3.2 and styles are supported in an HTML enabled Swing component, check it in a `JEditorPane`. Generally thouth, for better help sooner, post a [MCTaRE](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) (Minimal Complete Tested and Readable Example). — Andrew Thompson, Mar 20 '14 at 07:06
Note that CSS is malformed since it has no closing `}`.. And what the heck is the leading `*` of `*display: inline; /* For IE7 */` supposed to achieve? — Andrew Thompson, Mar 20 '14 at 07:09
@MadProgrammer *"CSS .. if at all, not very highly"* AFAIR it **does** cover the `display` styles. — Andrew Thompson, Mar 20 '14 at 07:11
@AndrewThompson Cool, never been able to get them to work... — MadProgrammer, Mar 20 '14 at 07:12
@AndrewThompson There's "limited" support. I wasn't able to get `width` or `text-align` to work, not even sure about `display` but did get `color` to work :P — MadProgrammer, Mar 20 '14 at 07:40
@MadProgrammer *"..wasn't able to get `width` .. to work"* See [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7861833/418556) and [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5767825/418556) for examples that successfully use both `px` and `%` for `width`. — Andrew Thompson, Mar 20 '14 at 07:47

Andrew Thompson · Answer 1 · 2014-03-20T07:48:58.300

It appears the attributes of the display style are ignored by the simple CSS engine provided with the JSE. This source demonstrates that. The styled text is red, but the display attribute does not change anything.

HTML Display Style

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;

class HTMLDisplayStyle {

    final static String EOL = System.getProperty("line.separator");
    final static String HTML_PRE = "<html>" + EOL
            + "<head>" + EOL
            + "<style>" + EOL
            + "span {" + EOL
            + "color: #FF0000;" + EOL
            + "display: ";
    final static String HTML_POST = ";" + EOL
            + "}" + EOL
            + "</style>" + EOL
            + "</head>" + EOL
            + "<body>" + EOL
            + "<p>" + EOL
            + "Some text " + EOL
            + "<span>text with display style</span> " + EOL
            + "some more text." + EOL
            + "</p>" + EOL
            + "</body>" + EOL
            + "</html>" + EOL;
    final static String[] ATTRIBUTES = {
        "inline",
        "block",
        "none"
    };

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Runnable r = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                JPanel gui = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());

                String s = HTML_PRE + ATTRIBUTES[0] + HTML_POST;
                final JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(s, 15, 30);
                gui.add(new JScrollPane(ta), BorderLayout.PAGE_END);

                final JLabel l = new JLabel(s);
                gui.add(new JScrollPane(l));

                final JComboBox style = new JComboBox(ATTRIBUTES);
                gui.add(style, BorderLayout.PAGE_START);
                ActionListener styleListener = new ActionListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                        String styleAttribute = 
                                style.getSelectedItem().toString();
                        String html = HTML_PRE + styleAttribute + HTML_POST;
                        ta.setText(html);
                        l.setText(html);
                    }
                };
                style.addActionListener(styleListener);


                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, gui);
            }
        };
        // Swing GUIs should be created and updated on the EDT
        // http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
    }
}

CSS Style in JTable cell

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