title: Determining text offset of a JTextArea line when wrapping
body: <p>I am trying to determine the bounds of a line of text in my text area.  I know that I can determine the bounds for an offset, which means I need to know the offset of the start and end of the line.</p>
  
  <p>So I thought I would try using the <code>getLine*</code> methods, but it didn't give the result I expected.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.awt.BorderLayout;
  import java.awt.Color;
  
  import javax.swing.JFrame;
  import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
  import javax.swing.JTextArea;
  import javax.swing.text.DefaultHighlighter;
  
  public class TextAreaLineBoundsTest
  {
      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
      {
          String string = "Lorem ipsum eum putant gubergren evertitur in, no assueverit vituperatoribus eum. Ea cibo offendit vim, est et vivendum qualisque prodesset. Vis doctus expetenda contentiones an, no ius mazim epicuri expetendis, saperet salutandi forensibus ne usu. Ex fugit alterum usu. His ignota cotidieque in, augue erroribus eam no.";
          JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(string);
          textArea.setLineWrap(true);
          textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
  
          String term = "qualisque";
          int termOffset = string.indexOf(term);
  
          int termLine = textArea.getLineOfOffset(termOffset);
          int termLineStartOffset = textArea.getLineStartOffset(termLine);
          int termLineEndOffset = textArea.getLineEndOffset(termLine);
  
          textArea.getHighlighter().addHighlight(termLineStartOffset, termLineEndOffset, new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(Color.YELLOW));
  
          JScrollPane textAreaScroll = new JScrollPane(textArea);
  
          JFrame frame = new JFrame();
          frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          frame.add(textAreaScroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          frame.setSize(400, 300);
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          frame.setVisible(true);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What it has highlighted is the entire paragraph of text, but I just want the line which contains the term I'm searching for.</p>