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Java - How to access highlighted material in a JTextArea

I have a JTextArea and I have a menu which allows you to cut, copy and paste information through the cut(), copy() and paste() methods. However, I want these methods to get the highlighted text from the text area and use that in the methods. Is this possible and how would you go about achieving this?

Solution

  • Use JTextArea.getSelectedText()