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how to get the style from the selected text in JTextpane?


Getting the Bold and Italic Styles From the JTextPane's Selectedtext

int start = jTextpane.getSelectionStart();
int end = jTextpane.getSelectionEnd();
String selectedText = jTextpane.getSelectedText();

Applying Style

StyledDocument doc = (StyledDocument) jTextpane.getDocument();
Style logicalStyle = doc.getLogicalStyle(jTextpane.getSelectionStart());
Element element = doc.getCharacterElement(start);
AttributeSet as = element.getAttributes();

Checking the Text,which is Bold and Italic

boolean isBold = StyleConstants.isBold(as) ? false : true;
boolean isItalic = StyleConstants.isItalic(as);
System.out.println("selected value is isItalic?"+isItalic);
System.out.println("selected value is isBold?"+isBold);

Solution

  • You can use below code to get the style from the selected text in JTextpane.

    import java.awt.BorderLayout;
    import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
    import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
    import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet;
    import javax.swing.*;
    import javax.swing.text.*;
    
     public class TesxtPane {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
    
            @Override
            public void run() {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                JFrame frame = new TextStyleTestFrame();
                frame.setSize(300, 300);
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
     }
    }
    class TextStyleTestFrame extends JFrame {
    private JButton btnStyle = new JButton("Bold");
    private JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
    
    public TextStyleTestFrame() {
        super("TextPaneStyle Test");
        textPane.setText("Smaple String");
        this.add(textPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.add(btnStyle);
        this.add(panel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        btnStyle.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                changeStyle();
            }
        });
    }
    
    
    private void changeStyle() {
    
        //get selected text style
        int start = textPane.getSelectionStart();
        int end = textPane.getSelectionEnd();
    
        if (start == end) {
            return;
        }
        StyledDocument doc = (StyledDocument) textPane.getDocument();
        Element element = doc.getCharacterElement(start);
        AttributeSet as = element.getAttributes();
        //apply a new style based on previous 
        MutableAttributeSet asNew = new SimpleAttributeSet(as.copyAttributes());
        StyleConstants.setBold(asNew, !StyleConstants.isBold(as));
        doc.setCharacterAttributes(start, textPane.getSelectedText().length(), asNew, true);
        String text = (StyleConstants.isBold(as) ? "Cancel Bold" : "Bold");
        btnStyle.setText(text);
        boolean isBold = StyleConstants.isBold(as) ? false : true;
        boolean isItalic = StyleConstants.isItalic(as);
        System.out.println("selected value is isItalic?" + isItalic);
        System.out.println("selected value is isBold?" + isBold);
       }
    
    }