The HTMLEditorKit Class
The API for the HTMLEditorKit is more or less what you might
expect from an editor kit if you made it through Chapter 19-Chapter 22 on Swing text components.
We’ll take a brief look at the API and then go through examples of how
to work with this editor kit.
Inner Classes
As you can see in Figure
23-7, HTMLEditorKit
defines several inner classes. These inner classes are
integral to the display and editing of HTML content. While we don’t
want to spend too much time on the details of these classes, you
should know about them. We list them here as a quick reference.
- public static class HTMLEditorKit.HTMLFactory
The view factory implementation for HTML.
- public static class HTMLEditorKit.HTMLTextAction
An
Actionfor inserting HTML into an existing document.- public static class HTMLEditorKit.InsertHTMLTextAction
An extension of
HTMLTextActionthat allows you to insert arbitrary HTML content. This one is quite handy. For example, we can create an action for a toolbar or menu that inserts a copyright:private final static String COPY_HTML = "<p>© 2002, O'Reilly & Associates</p>"; Action a = new HTMLEditorKit.InsertHTMLTextAction("InsertCopyright", COPY_HTML, HTML.Tag.BODY, HTML.Tag.P); a.putValue(Action.SMALL_ICON, new ImageIcon("icons/cpyrght.gif")); a.putValue(Action.NAME, "Copyright Text");The action can be added to a toolbar or menu, just like the others in the
StyledEditorexample. We end up with a one-touch button that adds our copyright information to the ...