Is it possible to embed html inside a JTextField?

Question

I have a Jpanel, which lists some information, but I want everything on there to be disabled. i.e. the user cant input anything (I want it to be so that the user knows they cant input anything as well)
I have some textFields, but when I setEnabled(false), the text within is rather hard to read, so I wanted to try to use html to make the text bold, but that doesn't work.
I also have a similar problem with havinga JCheckBox selected with is it not enabled. (its tough to see that it is selected)
anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Or just make the checkbox's icon ignore the enabled status, as in
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class CheckBoxIconTest {
     public static void main( String[] args ) {
          JPanel p = new JPanel();
          final JCheckBox cb = new JCheckBox( "CheckBox" );
          cb.setIcon( new CheckBoxIcon() );
          JButton button = new JButton( "Toggle Enabled" );
          button.addActionListener( new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) {
                    cb.setEnabled( !cb.isEnabled() );
          p.add( cb );
          p.add( button );
          JFrame f = new JFrame( "CheckBoxIconTest" );
          f.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
          f.getContentPane().add( p );
          f.pack();
          f.setVisible( true );
     private static class CheckBoxIcon implements Icon {
          private JCheckBox cb = new JCheckBox();
          private Icon icon = UIManager.getIcon( "CheckBox.icon" );
          public void paintIcon( Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y ) {
               ButtonModel itsModel = ( (JCheckBox) c ).getModel();
               ButtonModel myModel = cb.getModel();
               myModel.setArmed( itsModel.isArmed() );
               myModel.setPressed( itsModel.isPressed() );
               myModel.setSelected( itsModel.isSelected() );
               icon.paintIcon( cb, g, x, y );
          public int getIconWidth() {
               return icon.getIconWidth();
          public int getIconHeight() {
               return icon.getIconHeight();
}: jay