is it possible to make some words of jtextarea as bold?

[sudheer kiran]

hi all,
i have a requirement where i need to put first word of the JTextArea in bold font.
i need to use only JTextArea as this is a table column header.any suggestions please.



thanks,

[Rob Spoor]

Switch to JTextPane instead. JTextArea only knows plain text. It takes a Document as its model. JTextPane take a StyledDocument which can be used to add style information like bold etc.

There are some drawbacks however. JTextPane misses some features JTextArea does have, like word wrapping.

[sudheer kiran]

thanks prime thats very useful info.