Thread: How to Change JTextArea font, font size and color

Using this code you can change the font and font color in a JTextArea.

The default font and color looks like this:



When we apply this code:



We have created a JTextArea called txt. With a few simple lines of code you can change its font, color & size settings:

Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 12);
txt.setFont(font);
txt.setForeground(Color.BLUE);

There are several font settings in the Font class including PLAIN, BOLD, ITALIC and 13 different colors in the Color class (listed below).

1. BLACK
2. BLUE
3. CYAN
4. DARK_GRAY
5. GRAY
6. GREEN
7. LIGHT_GRAY
8. MAGENTA
9. ORANGE
10. PINK
11. RED
12. WHITE
13. YELLOW

Full code example:

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
 
public class JTextAreaFontandColor extends JFrame {
 
    JTextArea txt = new JTextArea();
 
    public JTextAreaFontandColor() {
 
        setLayout(null);
 
        txt.setBounds(3, 3, 300, 200);
        add(txt);
 
        Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 12);
        txt.setFont(font);
        txt.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
        txt.setText("\n \n JTextArea font & color change example");
    }
 
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        JTextAreaFontandColor jtxt = new JTextAreaFontandColor();
        jtxt.setSize(313,233);
        jtxt.setTitle("JTextArea font & color settings");
        jtxt.show();
 
    }
}

My query is quite similar
I want a part of text in JTextArea as BOLD and rest in default font...
Like this
XYZXYZXYZ
ABCABCABC

Is it possible to have some text as bold and some other text normal in JTextArea??

Also is it possible to change the color of some text and not of others???
(Just like above, instead of font I want to change color)

It will change the text in JLabel,JButton etc but not in JTextArea.
I have tried this and is also clear from the example given there.
But I was reading on and I found this can be easily done in JEditorPane and JTextPane.
Is it the only way by which it can be done??
If it is possible to change font in JTextArea plz post a very short code snippet to do it!!
Thanks in advance.

Did you notice that the Eclipse IDE - and I expect others to behave the same as well, indicated that the JTextArea's show() method is deprecated? What is the alternative to that method?