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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 448

Swing Dialogbox html formatting 'cutting off' half of the content

I have a dialog which I wish make a specific part bold. I know I have to do this with html however I seem to be losing half of the dialog message when I do this.

Original (No bold):

public class View extends JFrame {
    private final static String NEW_LINE = System
            .getProperty("line.separator");
    public void someMethodDisplayDialog(String string1, String string2, String string3) {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
                "An problem occured: " + string1
                        + NEW_LINE 
                        + string2 + " Error: "
                        + string3,
                "Error",
                JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
    }
}

Lets say:

In the dialog box this displays:

A problem occurred: Wrong Key!
Input Error: Z key pressed
I want to bold the "Input Error:" section. I have this code:

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
                "An problem occured: " + string1
                        + NEW_LINE + "<html><b>" 
                        + string2 + " Error:</b></html> "
                        + string3,
                "Error",
                JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

When run, this bolds what I want, but 'cuts off' off the rest, eg. string3 is not displayed.
I have tried putting the closing </b></html> tags after string3.
Everything is displayed, but string3 is also bold, which I do not want!

I am I missing something blatantly obvious here? I am not sure why this is happening?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

Sergiy Medvynskyy
Sergiy Medvynskyy

Reputation: 11327

As it already told by @Andrew Thompson your message must be started with <html> tag. So your code should look like:

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
            "<html>An problem occured: " + string1
                    + "<br><b>" 
                    + string2 + " Error:</b> "
                    + string3 + "</html>",
            "Error",
            JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

Upvotes: 2

WildCard
WildCard

Reputation: 547

add a + sign after string3 edit: your /html tag was cutting off string 3

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
                "An problem occured: " + string1
                        + NEW_LINE + "<html><b>" 
                        + string2 + " Error:</b>"
                        + string3 + "Error:</html>",
                JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

Upvotes: 0

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