Align text in a textarea

Greetings,
Could anyone point me out in how to align a text in a textarea?, as in left/right/center ?
Thank you

An easy way to do it is to use a JEditorPane... here's an example class:
package com.clearlyhazy;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class AlignableTextPane extends JEditorPane {
     private static String LEFT = "\"LEFT\"";
     private static String CENTER = "\"CENTER\"";
     private static String RIGHT = "\"RIGHT\"";
     private String alignString = LEFT;
     private String realText;
     public AlignableTextPane() {
          super("text/html", "");
     public AlignableTextPane(String align) {
          super("text/html", "");
          setAlignment(align);
     public void setAlignment(String align) {
          if (align.equals(AlignableTextPane.LEFT) || align.equals(AlignableTextPane.CENTER) || align.equals(AlignableTextPane.RIGHT)) {
               alignString = align;
     public String getText() {
          return realText;
     public void setText(String t) {
          realText = t;
          super.setText("<P ALIGN=" + alignString + ">" + realText + "</P>");
     public void setText(String t, String alignment) {
          alignString = alignment;
          setText(t);
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          JFrame tester = new JFrame("Alignment Test");
          JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
          mainPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 0));
          AlignableTextPane leftPane = new AlignableTextPane(AlignableTextPane.LEFT);
          leftPane.setText("This text is left-aligned.");
          mainPanel.add(leftPane);
          AlignableTextPane centerPane = new AlignableTextPane(AlignableTextPane.CENTER);
          centerPane.setText("This text is center-aligned.");
          mainPanel.add(centerPane);
          AlignableTextPane rightPane = new AlignableTextPane(AlignableTextPane.RIGHT);
          rightPane.setText("This text is right-aligned.");
          mainPanel.add(rightPane);
          tester.setContentPane(mainPanel);
          tester.setSize(400, 400);
          tester.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
          tester.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          tester.setVisible(true);
}

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