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e989. Inserting Styled Text in a JTextPane Component

See the StyleConstants class for more attributes.

    try {
        // Get the text pane's document
        JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
        StyledDocument doc = (StyledDocument)textPane.getDocument();
    
        // Create a style object and then set the style attributes
        Style style = doc.addStyle("StyleName", null);
    
        // Italic
        StyleConstants.setItalic(style, true);
    
        // Bold
        StyleConstants.setBold(style, true);
    
        // Font family
        StyleConstants.setFontFamily(style, "SansSerif");
    
        // Font size
        StyleConstants.setFontSize(style, 30);
    
        // Background color
        StyleConstants.setBackground(style, Color.blue);
    
        // Foreground color
        StyleConstants.setForeground(style, Color.white);
    
        // Append to document
        doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), "Some Text", style);
    } catch (BadLocationException e) {
    }