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displaying words in different fonts or colors in a textarea

bhagavatula indu sekhar
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how can i display text in a Textarea in different colors or fonts?
how can i set the cursor postion in Textarea?

jay vas
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Use html and the Swing/Java Html based components (google) ...

Michael Dunn
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> how can i display text in a Textarea in different colors or fonts?

use a JTextPane

> how can i set the cursor postion in Textarea?

setCaretPosition()

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