style sheet

[Roedy Green]

If you render HTML in Java with for example a JEditorPane, is there a
way to use a style sheet that lives as a resource in a jar?
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[Jon Gómez]

If you render HTML in Java with for example a JEditorPane, is there a
way to use a style sheet that lives as a resource in a jar?

I did some quick research, and I found the StyleSheet class:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/StyleSheet.html

It says it can parse a string of css-like statements, using
StyleSheet.addRule(String):

"Adds a set of rules to the sheet. The rules are expected to be in valid
CSS format. Typically this would be called as a result of parsing a
<style> tag."

It has some limitations, and is not a full implementation of CSS. You
can use such a StyleSheet with the HTMLEditorKit class:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html

You can use this in turn with the JEditorPane.

You could store the style sheet as a text file in the JAR, and then load
it, add it to a StyleSheet, and apply that up to the JEditorPane.
Perhaps that'll do what you want?

I tried it myself, and it seems to work.

Jon.