Problem Inserting HTML: tags in a JEditorPane

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fiziwig - 01 Aug 2006 00:00 GMT

I have a JEditorPane using the HTMLEditorKit.

JEditorPane textRegion;
...
textRegion = new JEditorPane();
textRegion.setEditorKit(new HTMLEditorKit());
....
When I try to surround the selected text with a bold tag like this:

selected = textRegion.getSelectedText();
textRegion.replaceSelection( ""+selected+ );

What I end up with in textRegion is that the less-than and greater-than
symbols have been replaced with their HTML-ified versions:
"selected text" instead of the actual tags.

How can I get a JEditorPane to take me seriously when I tell it to
insert an HTML tag?

Thanks.

--gary

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fiziwig - 01 Aug 2006 00:12 GMT

I noticed that when my message posted to my reader it had converted the
ampersand-l-t-semicolon back into a less-than character. So that my
post doesn't look totally foolish, my results after
replaceSelection(""+selected+"") are, with spaces added to
prevent converstion:

& l t ; b & g t ; selected text & l t ; / b & g t ;

--gary

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