Java JTextPane Changes the font of selected text

Question

I have a JTextPane (or JEditorPane, I can use either without problems). How to change the font of the selected area to a specific font?

textpane.getSelectedText().setFont() will not work. (Even with the font family)

Answer 1

You can change the font of JTextPane only in general, it does not have rich text.

There is a Document under JEditorPane (and, obviously, JTextPane), which you get with getDocument() . You want to do this with StyledDocument if you can, and then you can do something like setCharacterAttributes for a given character range.

There are several (hopefully) useful examples in the Java tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/editorpane.html .

Answer 2

You can do this using JTextPane. This cannot be done with JTextArea. Here is the best example of how to use JTextPane.

Example: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/editorpane.html

Code: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/TextSamplerDemoProject/src/components/TextSamplerDemo.java