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Asked: 2026-06-09T21:01:21+00:00

I have a JOptionPane: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, text); The text is a sting: String text =

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I have a JOptionPane:

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, text);

The text is a sting:

String text = "Hello world."

What I want to do is change the color of the text, specifically a single word, lets say ‘Hello’. SO what I’ve tried is:

String t1 = "Hello";
String t2 = "world."
Font serifFont = new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 12);
AttributedString as = new AttributedString(t1);
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, serifFont); 
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FOREGROUND, Color.red);


JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, as+t2);

I’m not familiar with attributedtext() and this wont work. It does this:

“java.text.AttributedString@479c479cworld”

Is there a step I’m missing? Is this not the right way? Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It should be possible to use html to solve this, ie

    String t = "<html><font color=#ffffdd>Hello</font> world!";

    See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/html.html for more info.

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