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I have this code to display HTML formatted string:

JTextPane pane = new JTextPane();
        pane.setContentType("text/html");
        pane.setEditable(false);
        pane.setText(
            "<html>" +
                "<body style='font-size:18px'>" +
                    "<h1>Error:</h1>" +
                    "<p>" +
                        "Could not read the file <code>none.txt</code>. " +
                        "Perhaps it does not exist in the specified location, " +
                        "or possibly there is no access to it" +
                    "</p>" +
                "</body>" +
            "</html>");
        add(pane);

But this is the output:

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You can see that the none.txt string doesn't inherit the font size of its enclosing paragraph, although this is what's supposed to happen in HTML (see jsfiddle).

How do I fix this?

Tar
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  • Perhaps end the body tag before the tags, then restate the body tag afterwards? Example: "Could not read the file none.txt – joey942 Dec 14 '16 at 13:46
  • @joey942, I don't see the sense in it. Why excluding `none.txt` from `` should work, and how can we have more than one ``? anyway, tried that, it completely ignores the whole content of `

    `, and all I see is the "Error:" text.

     – Tar Dec 14 '16 at 13:56
  • Then perhaps do this:
    none.txt
    Then in CSS, #notbody{ // set font size to what you want it to be} These are just suggestions, I have not tried them out myself.     – joey942 Dec 14 '16 at 14:01
  • I may have found something for you, this may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16201948/how-to-exclude-particular-class-name-in-css-selector It has information on the not selector. – joey942 Dec 14 '16 at 14:08

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Definitely a bug. You can work around it by adding explicit inheritance in the CSS, with a <style> element:

pane.setText(
    "<html>" +
        "<style>\ncode { font-size: inherit; }\n</style>" +
        "<body style='font-size:18px'>" +
            "<h1>Error:</h1>" +
            "<p>" +
                "Could not read the file <code>none.txt</code>. " +
                "Perhaps it does not exist in the specified location, " +
                "or possibly there is no access to it" +
            "</p>" +
        "</body>" +
    "</html>");
VGR
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  • That's annoying. Now I have to add `inherit` for every kind of block I may ever use? `bold`, `code`, etc... ? – Tar Dec 14 '16 at 20:55
  • I don’t think `` needs it. Probably just the ones which change the font family. ``, `
    `, ``, and possibly ``.
     – VGR Dec 14 '16 at 21:40