Inserting HTML into JEditorPane

Question

I have a window with a JEditorPane on top and a JTextField below it. I need to be able to type raw HTML into the edit field and have it appended to the HTML document displayed above.
For example if I type...
This is <b>bold
I need to append that to the document. However I want the style to stick. Notice I did not close the tag above. I want the next line I enter into the edit field...
and so is this but not</b> this.
I want this to appear bold up until the closing tag and then return to normal. The problem is that every time I append new text to the document the style is restored to normal.
I insert the text with the following code. I send the contents of the JTextField to the following function when I hit return.
void processInput(String input) {
try {
HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument) output.getDocument(); // output is my JEditorPane
editor.insertHTML(doc, doc.getLength(), input, 0, 0, HTML.Tag.BODY); // editor is HTMLEditorKit
// relevant catch clauses
Basically I want the two broken input sequences to appear in the editor as one seamless entry. I want to be able to type these two entries and have them show up as if they were entered as one entry.
entry 1:This is <b>bold
entry 2: and so is this but not</b> this.
I want to somehow cause this to be displayed as if I typed...
This is <b>bold and so is this but not</b> this.
Is there a way I can do this?
Thanks.
-Russ

Answer 1

as i understand you you want to write
entry 1:This is <b>bold
entry 2: and so is this but not</b> this.
in two lines
Try this
entry 1:This is <b>bold<br>
entry 2: and so is this but not</b> this.