Insert links in jeditorpane

Question

Hi,
I am working on an applet that allow a user to edit simple HTML.
The user can basicly enter plain text, and there are buttons that bold and add links.
I have also made Enter insert a break tag.
The code works fine EXCEPT in one case.
If a user pastes in some text, that has newlines in it, and selects the first word after a newline to become a link, the link appears on the line above where it should be.
The strange thing is that when I print the jeditorpane text, it looks fine, it just does not display in the pane correctly.
The code I use is
editor.replaceSelection("");
kit.insertHTML( doc, start, "<a href=\"" + link + "\">" + text + "</a>", 0, 0, HTML.Tag.A );
HOWEVER if I change to
kit.insertHTML( doc, start, "<a href=\"" + link + "\">" + text + "</a>", 1, 1, HTML.Tag.A );
I.e. change 0,0 to 1,1 it displays properly BUT only in the case where the word selected is just after a newline.
I catch Ctrl-V keypresses, to ensure that the user only pastes in the plaintext version of what they are pasting. The problem would be solved if I could replace the newlines with break tags at this stage, but if I do that, the tags appear in the text.
So (finally) my questions are.
a) Is there a way to see check for the newline character being before the word selected?
b) Or is there a way to make the default pasteaction handle break tags as markup rather than plain characters.
Thanks
wbxv

Answer 1

a) Is there a way to see check for the newline character being before the word selected?You can try something like this:
String newline=System.getProperty("line.separator");
if (text.startsWith(newline)) text=text.substring(newline.length());
editor.replaceSelection("");
kit.insertHTML( doc, start, "<a href=\"" + link + "\">" + text + "</a>", 0, 0, HTML.Tag.A );
b) Or is there a way to make the default pasteaction handle break tags as markup rather than plain
characters.You can try something like this:
int i=text_to_paste.indexOf(newline);   // newline is defined above
if (i>=0) text_to_paste=text_to_paste.substring(0,i)+"<br>"+text_to_paste.substring(i+newline.length());You can make a loop to replace all newlines with <br> if you like.
Hope this helps...
V.V.