Basic Text Components - The Definitive Guide to Java Swing - page 566

Creating a JEditorPane
The JEditorPane has four constructors:

public JEditorPane()
JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane();

public JEditorPane(String type, String text)
String content = "<H1>Got Java?</H1>";
String type = "text/html";
JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane(type, content);

public JEditorPane(String urlString) throws IOException
JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane("http://www.apress.com");

public JEditorPane(URL url) throws IOException
URL url = new URL("http://www.apress.com");
JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane(url);

The no-argument constructor creates an empty JEditorPane . If you want to initialize the
contents, you can directly specify the text and its MIME type. Or, you can specify the URL for
where to get the contents. The URL can be specified as either a String or a URL object. When
you specify the contents as a URL, the JEditorPane determines the MIME type from the response.

JEditorPane Properties
Table 15-12 shows the 11 properties of JEditorPane . Most of the properties just customize the
behavior of the parent classes.

Table 15-12. JEditorPane Properties

Property Name Data Type Access

accessibleContext AccessibleContext

Read-only

contentType String Read-write

editorKit EditorKit Read-write bound

hyperlinkListeners HyperlinkListener[ ] Read-only

page URL Read-write bound

page String Write-only bound

preferredSize Dimension Read-only

scrollableTracksViewportHeight boolean

Read-only

scrollableTracksViewportWidth boolean Read-only

text String Read-write

UIClassID String

Read-only