HTML for a GUI? Possible, but probable?

Question

I am familiar with Swing and JTextPane to render HTML pages within an application, but I would like to take my application a step further by making my entire GUI one large JTextPane (or any other method of displaying HTML) and all the buttons be part of an HTML file with <IMG> tags and other links that interface directly with my application. Can someone with any experience in this give me some direction as to how I should go about this and even if it's a reasonable solution?
The primary reason I'd like to do this is for my application I want to give users the ability to change the appearance of their interface, or just create multiple "skins" for them to change between given the complexity of what actually must be done on the HTML end.
Thank you,
Matt

Answer 1

You can implement your own HyperlinkListener interface which will process all user's clicks.
Also you can access to all HTML inner componens (buttons, textfields etc.) using following:
After adding HTML to your textPane use
Component[] containers=textPane.getComponents();
You obtain list of containers (one container for one component).
and
Component innerComponent=((Container)containers[0]).getComponent(0);
System.err.println(innerComponent.getClass().getName());
after that just perform typecast to button or textfiled or whatever and add your listener to this object.
Hope this helps
Best regards
Stas