JTextPane Background Color

Question

I am making a text-based game where the user inputs text to solve the game. I decided to use java swing to display the text, and I want to have the background of the textPane to

Answer 1

You may have an issue with Nimbus not respecting the background color settings. Try this to override the color:

  JEditorPane area = new JEditorPane();

  Color bgColor = Color.BLACK;
  UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
  defaults.put("EditorPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", bgColor);
  area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);
  area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", true);
  area.setBackground(bgColor);