I'm fairly new to Java and I'm hoping someone can help me out on this question. I'm opening up an html file in a JEditorPane. The html file has checkboxes. What I want to do is to be able to save the html file from my Java app. I know how to save the file, but I don't know how to save the file with the checkboxes checked. By default the first time you open the file the boxes will be unchecked, but if I have checked the box and then saved the file the next time I open this file I want those boxes to be checked. Does anybody have any suggestion? Hopefully this is clear. I am also willing to change the JEditorPane to something else if it would make it easier.

Thanks

I think that you may save this checkbox options in a db where the webpage can read,(it is just a suggestion),but I think it should work as you did.

The relevant area of the Java Tutorial is here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ents/text.html

Something like this might help:

JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane();
// Get a URL somehow
java.net.URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource("readme.html");
editorPane.setPage(url);
HTMLDocument htmlDoc = (HTMLDocument) editorPane.getDocument();
htmlDoc.addDocumentListener(
new DocumentListener(){
public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e){
// handle DocumentEvent's
}
public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e){
// handle DocumentEvent's
}
public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e){
// handle DocumentEvent's
}
};
);

Pseudocode, with links:

call the getDocument() method on your JEditorPane:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/ap...ditorPane.html

That will give you one of these:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/ap.../Document.html

But you can cast it to one of these:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/ap...LDocument.html

Then you can use the addDocumentListener method of HTMLDocument to listen for these:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/ap...mentEvent.html

using a class you have created that implements this:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/ap...tListener.html