Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hello everyone!

In my program I use a JEditorPane and HTML to display a set of records retrieved from a database in a Web-like enviroment, similar to a google result page. I want to let the user search text in the result page so that he or she can locate a certain result more quickly.

To do so i extract the text from the JEditorPane and permor a search in it with the indexOf function of the String class once the location of the String is returned I try to use the Highlighter of the JEditorPane to highlight the text but it doesn't work and I don't understand why.

I have been looking around the web but most of the examples I have found are using JEditorPane as a plain text or rich text none is using the JEditorPane as an HTML display. What I was wondering is... Is it possible to highlight text in a JEditorPane that is displaying HTML? and How do you do it?

Here's my code:

	public void findInPage(JEditorPane page, String sText)
	{
		int offset;
		int startPos;
		int sTextLenght;
		Highlighter hliter;
		int pageTextLength;	
		String pageText = null;
			
		if(page == null || sText == null) return;
		sTextLenght = sText.length();
		
		try
		{
			pageTextLength = page.getDocument().getLength();
			if(pageTextLength < 1) return;
			
			pageText = page.getDocument().getText(0, pageTextLength);
		}
		catch(BadLocationException ex)
		{
			// Bad location?			
			System.out.println(ex);
			return;
		}
		
		if(pageText == null) return;
		startPos = 0;
		
		if(lastSearchPage == page && lastSearchText.equals(sText))
			if(lastLocateIndex >= 0)
				startPos = lastLocateIndex + 1;
		
		System.out.println(sText + " starting at: " + startPos);
		offset = pageText.indexOf(sText, startPos);
		
		if(offset < 0)
		{
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Text not found", "Find in results", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
			
			lastSearchPage = page;
			lastSearchText = sText;
			lastLocateIndex = -1;
		}
		else
		{
			hliter = page.getHighlighter();
			hliter.removeAllHighlights();
			
			try
			{
				hliter.addHighlight(offset, sTextLenght, myHighlightPainter);
			}
			catch(Exception ex)
			{
				System.out.println(ex);
			}
			
			lastSearchPage = page;
			lastSearchText = sText;
			lastLocateIndex = offset;
		}
		
	}
	
    // An instance of the private subclass of the default highlight painter
    Highlighter.HighlightPainter myHighlightPainter = new MyHighlightPainter(Color.red);
    
    // A private subclass of the default highlight painter
    class MyHighlightPainter extends DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter {
        public MyHighlightPainter(Color color) {
            super(color);
        }
    }

The last few lines are from an example i found on the internet. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.