Question

What font does the StyledDocument associated with a JTextPane use? By default, does it use the same font as the JTextPane? In particular, I’m wondering about the font size.

Answer 1

StyledDocument is just interface. Interface doesn’t have any font.

If you take a look at the DefaultStyledDocument class (implementing the interface).

public Font getFont(AttributeSet attr) {
    StyleContext styles = (StyleContext) getAttributeContext();
    return styles.getFont(attr);
}

Then in the StyleContext’s sources

public Font getFont(AttributeSet attr) {
    // PENDING(prinz) add cache behavior
    int style = Font.PLAIN;
    if (StyleConstants.isBold(attr)) {
        style |= Font.BOLD;
    }
    if (StyleConstants.isItalic(attr)) {
        style |= Font.ITALIC;
    }
    String family = StyleConstants.getFontFamily(attr);
    int size = StyleConstants.getFontSize(attr);

    /**
     * if either superscript or subscript is
     * is set, we need to reduce the font size
     * by 2.
     */
    if (StyleConstants.isSuperscript(attr) ||
        StyleConstants.isSubscript(attr)) {
        size -= 2;
    }

    return getFont(family, style, size);
}

Then in the StyleConstants.

public static int getFontSize(AttributeSet a) {
    Integer size = (Integer) a.getAttribute(FontSize);
    if (size != null) {
        return size.intValue();
    }
    return 12;
}