How to Display a Webpage Inside a Swing Application

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to display a webpage inside a swing application. JEditorPanel class is used to create a simple text editor. This class provides the method setContentType() and setText().

• setContentType(‘text/plain’): This method is used to set the content type, here text/plain means plain text.
• setText(text): This method is used to set the initial text.

 

Java Program to Display a Webpage Inside a Swing Application:

import javax.swing.*;

import java.io.*;

public class DisplayWebPage extends JFrame 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane();
        editor.setEditable(false);   

        try {
            editor.setPage("https://example.com/");
        }catch (IOException e) {
            editor.setContentType("text/html");
            editor.setText("Page could not load");
        }
 
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(editor);     
        JFrame f = new JFrame("Display example.com web page");
        f.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
        f.setSize(700,400);
        f.setVisible(true);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
}

Output:

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