Formatting Text - java

I need to format some text in JOptionPane.showMessageDialog. I need the text to be in tabular format
Example:
Operation Result
2 + 2 4
I have tried to use string.format() but it comes out ugly. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

String.format would work well if you were using a fixed-width font (like a console output) but the message dialogs default to a variable-width font.
Luckily all labels in Swing support HTML formatting. All you have to do is wrap your string with HTML tags like <html> some text</html>. Then you could use an actual HTML table.

It seems like you got some number of data to be displayed. Using JDialog instead of JOptionpane is better to put number of data. Answer to your question can be found in the below link
http://forums.techguy.org/software-development/1051819-solved-help-java-tabular-format.html

You can pass a String containing the data in html code, you can try to do this format with a HTML table.

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How to save HTML code in Sql Server database for correct display?

My website is just like Stack Overflow and under development. I am using plain textarea to take text input as I do not have any WMD editor like Stack Overflow's.
When I take HTML code as input and store it in database table in a text or nvarchar(max) column, it is stored successfully. But when I call that data for display, it displays the corresponding HTML page instead of that HTML code on screen. I am not able to resolve it. For better understanding I'm putting here input page and output page images of my website.
This is image of input page:
This is the image of output page:
What is going wrong here ?
One easy way is to replace
< with < and > with >
in the HTML string which you retrived and then display it on page.
Have you tried that ?
You need to escape the HTML so it's not interpreted by the browser. How to do that depends on the view technology you're using.
With JSP and JSTL the escaping is automatically done with <c:out value="${myString}"/>. If you're not using JSTL yet, now's the time to start (there's a lot of other helpful things in there too).
you can save the html codes just like text. You can use varchar(max) type column to save the html code in table. Display the code is depending the browser. But if you use nvarchar type that will cause problems in display.
Another possible solution is to replace the html tags before storing in database. What I did is :-
text=text.replaceAll("<", "<");
text=text.replaceAll(">", ">");
and then stored text in database and its working. Thanks to Bibin Mathew.

Print html portion into pdf using Java

community!
My project is simple: I have a link to a website that has multiple information on different chemical substances and I want to extract some data and put in into pdf. Thing is that I want to keep the formatting of the original HTML (using it's css, of course).
Example of substance: http://www.molbase.com/en/msds_1659-31-0-moldata-2.html#tabs
I used jsoup to read the HTML of the table on the bottom of the page, the MSDS one, containing multiple sections with different information about the substance, but I really don't know how to save the exact HTML format into my pdf file. I have tried with iText too, but it gives me "missing ending tag" error, and if it worked, it would print the full page, not only that msds table.
Here is what I have tried to do, but ain't effective:
Document docu = Jsoup.connect(urlbun).get();
Element tableHeader = docu.select("div[class=\"msds\"]")
.first();
String[] finSyn = tableHeader.text().split(" ");
String moreText =" ";
I tried to split the text that the webpage has under that div ("class = "msds"") but I cannot find a way to split it the good way.
Please, could you please give me a hint on what to do? Even if the formating is not the same, I would like to be able to display the information in the same way, with indentation and such.
Thank you!
You can put the content that you want to convert to PDF inside a CSS ID (such as a DIV) and then use the PDFmyURL API to convert only that section to PDF.
Please refer to this on our website about how to select pieces from a page to convert to PDF
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Displaying xml in textarea without rendering htmlentities

I've been reading about this for a while now and can't find the solution.
This looks like the solution I need:
How to stop html textarea from interpreting html entities into their characters
But when I do this I just get in the textarea. What gives?
This is my first time trying to use jstl. Please help.
use jquery's text() method and assign it to text area.

How can I present multiline data in grid like component in Java and AWT

I have a few records of data (less then 10). Each record consists of a few lines of text.
I want to present records to the user in a kind of grid, where user can select one of the records.
I was thinking about List component or jTable, but I couldn't make them displaying more then one line of text. What component should I use then, or how to approach this?
In subject I suggested AWT because size does matter, i.e. I want use this functionality in the applet and would like to avoid any extra libraries.
Thanks in advance
Thanks to maksimov's link I found examples of how to tackle this issue, and also very interesting link I missed somehow - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/html.html
To specify that a component's text has HTML formatting, just put the
tag at the beginning of the text, then use any valid HTML in
the remainder. Here is an example of using HTML in a button's text:
button = new JButton("<html><b><u>T</u>wo</b><br>lines</html>");
In my case it was just enough to set height of the row and add tag just before string data to be displayed. HTML tagging also let me use extra formatting, colors, etc,
Brilliant,
Thank you maksimiov

Convert html code into plain text

I am developing android application in which i want to convert html code in to plain text and display it in the editText. I use Jsoup.jar for that but it shrink the data. Like it just remove the tag.I will not got to the next line. Does any one has the solution to display html code in the plain text? Any help or suggestions are accepted. Thank you.
Use Html.fromHtml(htmltext).

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