How to get highlighted text in a jtextarea

java swing jtextarea swing-highlighter
Nuwan picture Nuwan · Jun 15, 2011 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I have a jtextarea with some texts. I use java highligher to highlight some texts on that jtextarea. I want to print the content of that textarea to another textarea with the highlighted texts. Is that possible? Or is there any way of getting only the highlighted text inside a jtextarea?

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Waldheinz picture Waldheinz · Jun 15, 2011

You can just ask the text area for the selected text using the getSelectedText method.

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