how do you specify color for certain parts of the JTextArea? do you have to use another class to do this?

what i want is like a black background, but some text in the text area can have different foreground colors.

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It is impossible by using JTextArea to do this, You can use JEditorPane, and set HTML text or rtf text into the JEditorPane.

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