Remove Highlighting in a JTextComponent
import java.awt.Color; import javax.swing.JTextArea; import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException; import javax.swing.text.DefaultHighlighter; import javax.swing.text.Document; import javax.swing.text.Highlighter; import javax.swing.text.JTextComponent; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { JTextArea textComp = new JTextArea(); removeHighlights(textComp); } public static void removeHighlights(JTextComponent textComp) { Highlighter hilite = textComp.getHighlighter(); Highlighter.Highlight[] hilites = hilite.getHighlights(); for (int i = 0; i < hilites.length; i++) { if (hilites[i].getPainter() instanceof MyHighlightPainter) { hilite.removeHighlight(hilites[i]); } } } }