Java displaying HTML

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I'm trying to display HTML that I received from a server. However, the current code is only working for very few and simple HTML code (e.g. bad request pages).

This is a sample of very simple HTML that I cannot manage to display with my current code.

 <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
 <TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
 <H1>302 Moved</H1>
 The document has moved
 <A HREF="http://www.google.be/index.html?gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=uhoTU6CaDoSNOrHrgeAL">here</A>.
 </BODY></HTML>

Here is my code which runs inside a JFrame.

JEditorPane ed1 = new JEditorPane("text/html", content);
add(ed1);
setVisible(true);
setSize(600,600);
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

Note that content is just a string with every line of HTML concatenated to one another. Like so: content = "<HTML>.............</HTML>"

There might be more elegant solutions to fetching server responses and displaying them. But, I am restricted to the java.io and java.net packages.

that does seem to resolve the issue I had with this response. Thank you! — xrdty
– xrdty, Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 12:37
More information. What does "not working" mean? Show us a simple example of input and failing output. Remember that JEditorPane isn't a browser and isn't going to render most of the tags for you. — keshlam
– keshlam, Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 16:30
@keshlam the html code above is the failing input, resulting in an empty window. Do you know an alternative to what I am trying to do? Something more browser-like perhaps? — xrdty
– xrdty, Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 16:43

Gladwin Burboz · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-19 21:26:19Z

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This code writes the HTML to a file and then proceeds to open this file with the default browser.

File file = new File("test.html");
try {
    Files.write(file.toPath(), content.getBytes());
    Desktop.getDesktop().browse(file.toURI());
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
}

edited Feb 19, 2016 at 21:26

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answered Mar 2, 2014 at 17:38

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Ian Roberts · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-02 18:30:24Z

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The HTML support in JEditorPane is pretty basic, essentially HTML 3.2 with very limited support for styling. You may want to try an alternative renderer component such as flying saucer, which does a much better job of more modern standards such as XHTML and CSS.

answered Mar 2, 2014 at 18:30

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Nathan · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-13 03:12:03Z

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Consider the following code:

JEditorPane edit1 = new JEditorPane("text/html",content);

Have you tried to replace text/html with text/plain so that it is considered as plain text and not HTML?

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answered Mar 2, 2014 at 21:58

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