Swing Examples - Display HTML Page using URL

Following example showcase how to read a URL to display its page in swing based application.

We are using the following APIs.

JEditorPane − To create a editor box to display an HTML content.
jEditorPane.setPage(String url) − To get HTML from a url passed and display.

Example

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.LayoutManager;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;

public class SwingTester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      createWindow();
   }

   private static void createWindow() {    
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("Swing Tester");
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      createUI(frame);
      frame.setSize(560, 450);      
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);  
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }

   private static void createUI(final JFrame frame){  
      JPanel panel = new JPanel();
      LayoutManager layout = new FlowLayout();  
      panel.setLayout(layout);       

      JEditorPane jEditorPane = new JEditorPane();
      jEditorPane.setEditable(false);   
      try {   
         jEditorPane.setPage("http://www.google.com");
      } catch (IOException e) { 
         jEditorPane.setContentType("text/html");
         jEditorPane.setText("<html>Page not found.</html>");
      }

      JScrollPane jScrollPane = new JScrollPane(jEditorPane);
      jScrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(540,400));      

      panel.add(jScrollPane);
      frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);    
   }  
}

Output

swingexamples_editorpanes.htm

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