A Swing JLabel automatically interprets any text as HTML content, if it starts with . If the content of this HTML is an image with invalid URL this will cause th
Hanging is probably the least unpleasant behavior. This is why Data Validation is so very important. Just do not allow the users to enter something like that.
There is a way if you create your own look and feel.
I'm not sure how well this performs is this, but it works. Lets assume you will extend the "Classic Windows" L&F.You need at leas 2 classes
One is the Look&Feel itself, lets call it WindowsClassicLookAndFeelExt. You only need to override method initClassDefaults.
package testSwing;
import javax.swing.UIDefaults;
import com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsClassicLookAndFeel;
public class WindowsClassicLookAndFeelExt extends WindowsClassicLookAndFeel {
@Override protected void initClassDefaults(UIDefaults table){
super.initClassDefaults(table);
Object[] uiDefaults = { "LabelUI", WindowsLabelExtUI.class.getCanonicalName()};
table.putDefaults(uiDefaults);
}
}
You also need a WindowsLabelExtUI class to manage all JLabels and set the property:
package testSwing;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.plaf.ComponentUI;
import com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLabelUI;
public class WindowsLabelExtUI extends WindowsLabelUI{
static WindowsLabelExtUI singleton = new WindowsLabelExtUI();
public static ComponentUI createUI(JComponent c){
c.putClientProperty("html.disable", Boolean.TRUE);
return singleton;
}
}
And finally a test class when you set the theme as WindowsClassicLookAndFeelExt
package testSwing;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
public class Main{
public static void main(String[] args){
try{ UIManager.setLookAndFeel(WindowsClassicLookAndFeelExt.class.getCanonicalName());
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
JFrame frame = new JFrame("JList Test");
frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
String[] selections = {"<html><img src='http:\\\\invalid\\url'>", "<html><H1>Hello</h1></html>", "orange", "dark blue"};
JList list = new JList(selections);
list.setSelectedIndex(1);
System.out.println(list.getSelectedValue());
JLabel jLabel = new JLabel("<html><h2>standard Label</h2></html>");
frame.add(new JScrollPane(list));
frame.add(jLabel);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
And you will see something like
For a simple JLabel, you can call the JComponent method
myLabel.putClientProperty("html.disable", Boolean.TRUE);
on the label where you want to disable HTML rendering.
Reference: Impossible to disable HTML Rendering in a JLabel
For something like a JTable, JTree, or JList you'll need to create a custom cell renderer that sets this property. Here's an example (modified from this example) that creates a custom cell renderer for a JList.
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer;
public class JListTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("JList Test");
frame.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
String[] selections = { "<html><img src='http:\\\\invalid\\url'>",
"red", "orange", "dark blue" };
JList list = new JList(selections);
// set the list cell renderer to the custom class defined below
list.setCellRenderer(new MyCellRenderer());
list.setSelectedIndex(1);
System.out.println(list.getSelectedValue());
frame.add(new JScrollPane(list));
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
class MyCellRenderer extends JLabel implements ListCellRenderer {
public MyCellRenderer() {
setOpaque(true);
putClientProperty("html.disable", Boolean.TRUE);
}
public Component getListCellRendererComponent(
JList list,
Object value,
int index,
boolean isSelected,
boolean cellHasFocus)
{
setText(value.toString());
return this;
}
}
I used the example code from the ListCellRenderer documentation as a starting point for the custom list cell renderer.
When I run the example, you can see that the HTML in the first list entry is rendered instead of being interpreted.