How to get highlighted text in a jtextarea

Question

I have a jtextarea with some texts. I use java highligher to highlight some texts on that jtextarea. I want to print the content of that textarea to another textarea with the hi

Answer 1

Use the getHighlights() method of your Highlighter. From there, you can retrieve the offsets of the start and end of highlighting.

Answer 2

You can just ask the text area for the selected text using the getSelectedText method.