Re: CSS Engine

From:

Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:54:05 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mar 15, 6:57 pm, howa <howac...@gmail.com> wrote:
...

Are there any CSS engine library avaliable?

Swing components will render styled HTML, to an extent..

<sscce>
import javax.swing.*;

class ExampleCSS {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String content =
      "<html>" +
      "<head>" +
      "<style type='text/css'>" +
      ".hidden { display: none; }" +
      ".invisible { visibility: hidden; }" +
      ".red { color: red; }" +
      "</style>" +
      "</head>" +
      "<body>" +
      "<p class='hidden'> Hidden </p> " +
      "<p class='invisible'> Invisible </p> " +
      "<p class='red'> I see red </p> " +
      "";
    JLabel render = new JLabel(content);
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, render);
  }
}
</sscce>

Interestingly, neither the display nor visibility
attributes seems to be supported in Java 1.6.

Any recommendation?

1) Using Swing components. Keep the HTML as
simple as practical, then load it using Java
and remove the invisible elements before passing
it on to a Swing component.

2) The JDIC thing that allows you to 'embed' a
browser in an application.

--
Andrew T.
PhySci.org