Exception is thrown when using JEditorPane to display html

Question

Hello,
I have this basic browser to display some pages from our intranet. Here's the code for it:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.IOException;
public class BrowserPanel extends JPanel {
private JEditorPane pane = null;
// Constructors
public BrowserPanel() {
pane = new JEditorPane();
pane.setEditable(false);
JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(pane);
sp.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
add(sp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
// Methods
public void setContent(String str) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(500);
sb.append("http://local.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?arg=");
sb.append(str);
try {
URL url = new URL(sb.toString());
pane.setPage(url);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
System.err.println("Malformed URL: " + e);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("IOException: " + e);
On some of the pages I get text all scrambled and the following exception comes up:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
at javax.swing.text.html.TableView$RowView.layoutMajorAxis(TableView.java:1393)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.layout(BoxView.java:580)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.setSize(BoxView.java:265)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.paint(BoxView.java:283)
at javax.swing.text.html.TableView$RowView.paint(TableView.java:1315)
at javax.swing.text.html.TableView.paint(TableView.java:740)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.paintChild(BoxView.java:104)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.paint(BoxView.java:294)
at javax.swing.text.html.BlockView.paint(BlockView.java:240)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.paintChild(BoxView.java:104)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.paint(BoxView.java:294)
at javax.swing.text.html.BlockView.paint(BlockView.java:240)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$RootView.paint(BasicTextUI.java:1170)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.paintSafely(BasicTextUI.java:523)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.paint(BasicTextUI.java:657)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.update(BasicTextUI.java:636)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(JComponent.java:395)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:687)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:498)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:696)
at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(JViewport.java:668)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintWithBuffer(JComponent.java:3878)
at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(JComponent.java:3821)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(JComponent.java:3672)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:370)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(SystemEventQueueUtilities.java:124)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:154)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:337)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:131)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:85)
Many thanks for any clues on how to make it work.
cheers,
--JavanT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

you should specify that this is an HTML veiwer explicitly, by writting something similar to this,
editor.setContentType("text/html");
kit = (HTMLEditorKit) editor.getEditorKit();
editor.setEditorKit(kit);
doc = (HTMLDocument) kit.createDefaultDocument();
editor.setDocument(doc);