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Asked: 2026-06-12T13:43:23+00:00

How would I go on creating a horizontal line element in JTextPane? Just a

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How would I go on creating a horizontal line element in JTextPane? Just a rectangle painted probably by View.paint(Graphics), which covers the whole width of the JTextPane, and has an arbitrary height. I also need to be able to dynamically remove these elements.

I’m attempting to approach this by creating a custom editor kit, which has a custom view factory, which returns a “HorizontalLineView” for line elements… but I must admit that this all is a bit over my head! How do I, for example, create the element for this HorizontalLineView? I’ve only used insertString() so far… and I don’t see “addElement” method anywhere… any pointers to right direction would be great.

I’ll sneak in another question: Can anyone recommend a good book that covers JEditorPane/JTextPane in depth?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If HTML content is acceptable, you could do something like:

    JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
textPane.setContentType("text/html");
textPane.setText("<html>Some Text Above The Line<hr size=5>Some Text Below</html>");
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