JTextArea : Java Glossary
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JTextArea
multiline display of text on the screen. Sometimes you permit the user to edit it. You can control where the line breaks are by embedding '\n' characters in your text. The AWT equivalent is called a TextArea. AWT TextArea has an advantage over JTextArea. Without any coding, the user can select, copy and paste, even in an unsigned Applet. With Swing this does not work in Opera.

JTextAreas have use the same font size and colours throughout. If you want to vary them, you will need a JTextPane or a JTextEditorPane.

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on the JTextArea class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the Document class : available:
AWT
JEditorPane
JPasswordField
JTextField
JTextPane
Swing
TextArea
TextField
ToolTip
window differences
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