Find Dialog for JEditorPane

Question

Hi
I've developed the following Find Dialog.
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.text.JTextComponent;
public class Find extends JFrame{
     private JTextComponent component;
     private JTextField txtFind = new JTextField(20);
     private JButton btnFind = new JButton("Find");
     public Find(JTextComponent component){
          this.component = component;
          this.setTitle("Find");
          setupLayout();
          pack();
          setVisible(true);
     private void setupLayout(){
          getContentPane().setLayout(new GridLayout(1,2));
          getContentPane().add(txtFind);
          getContentPane().add(btnFind);
          setupListeners();
     private void setupListeners(){
          btnFind.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                    doFind();
     private void doFind(){
          try{
               int start = component.getCaretPosition();
               int found = component.getDocument().getText(0,component.getText().length()).indexOf(txtFind.getText(),start + 1);
               if (found >=0){
                    component.setCaretPosition(found);
                    component.setSelectionStart(found);
                    component.setSelectionEnd(found + txtFind.getText().length());
          catch (Exception e){
               e.printStackTrace();
}This works fine as long as the component which is a JEditorPane doesn't set the Document Type to "text/html".
In short this Find Dialog does not work if the component is a JEditorPane that views an HTML document.
Any ideas why ?
Thanks

Answer 1

Calling getText on JEditorPane with content type set to HTML does not return normal text. You'll need read more on how to use the HTMLEditorKit and HTMLDocument in order find the right methods that return the actual text in the document
ICE