Question

I have an application where I need to show one specific section of a HTML document within a swing JPanel. The section to be shown depends on what the user is doing at any given time.

I know that JEditorPane can display simple HTML, and in fact in terms of HTML support this is more than enough for my needs. However I don’t think I can use this to display only part of the original HTML file.

I thought of putting each section within a div, then hiding all divs with CSS (display: none), and showing only the target section by setting display: block on the section I wanted to show. Unfortunately JEditorPane has limited CSS support and this does not seem to include the “display” attribute.

Before I go and implement something more elaborate, is there any simple way to achieve this goal?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I didn’t find a way to do what I wanted relying on the CSS support from the JEditorPane. What I ended up doing is manually parsing the HTML document and splitting it in “fragments” (top-level DIVs representing sections), then displaying each section as required via JEditorPane.setText.