JTextPane text background color does not work

I am trying to make a small HTML-wysiwyg with a JTextPane but I can't get the BackgroundAction to work. I am using setCharacterAttributes on the StyledDocument of the JTextPane but it seems problematic. The view is ok but the Document is not.

Here is a small demo code showing the problem. There are 2 JTextPane:

I set the background color of my text in the first one
I retrieve the text of the first JTextPane and set it on the second one

--> They don't show the same thing although they have the same text.

Is there a way to set the background color on the current selected text and have the JTextPane report an updated HTML-text?

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants;
import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument;

public class TestDifferentStyles {

    private void initUI() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame(TestDifferentStyles.class.getSimpleName());
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        final JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
        final JTextPane textPane2 = new JTextPane();
        textPane2.setEditable(false);
        textPane.setContentType("text/html");
        textPane2.setContentType("text/html");
        textPane.setText("<html><head></head><body><p>Hello world</p></body></html>");
        SimpleAttributeSet set = new SimpleAttributeSet();
        StyleConstants.setForeground(set, Color.GREEN);
        StyleConstants.setBackground(set, Color.BLACK);
        ((StyledDocument) textPane.getDocument()).setCharacterAttributes(0, textPane.getDocument().getLength(), set, false);

        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout());
        GridBagConstraints gbc = new GridBagConstraints();
        gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
        gbc.weightx = 1.0;
        gbc.weighty = 1.0;
        panel.add(textPane, gbc);
        panel.add(textPane2, gbc);
        frame.add(panel);
        frame.setSize(500, 400);
        frame.setVisible(true);
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                System.err.println(textPane.getText());
                textPane2.setText(textPane.getText());
            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new TestDifferentStyles().initUI();
            }
        });
    }

}

The output result (the black border are around each JTextPane):

public class BackgroundColorAction extends StyledEditorKit.StyledTextAction { private Color color; public BackgroundColorAction(Color color) { super(StyleConstants.Background.toString()); this.color = color; } @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) { JEditorPane editor = getEditor(ae); if (editor == null) { return; } //Add span Tag String htmlStyle = "background-color:" + Util.getHTMLColor(color); SimpleAttributeSet attr = new SimpleAttributeSet(); attr.addAttribute(HTML.Attribute.STYLE, htmlStyle); MutableAttributeSet outerAttr = new SimpleAttributeSet(); outerAttr.addAttribute(HTML.Tag.SPAN, attr); //Next line is just an instruction to editor to change color StyleConstants.setBackground(outerAttr, this.color); setCharacterAttributes(editor, outerAttr, false); } }

/** * Convert a Java Color to equivalent HTML Color. * * @param color The Java Color * @return The String containing HTML Color. */ public static String getHTMLColor(Color color) { if (color == null) { return "#000000"; } return "#" + Integer.toHexString(color.getRGB()).substring(2).toUpperCase(); }

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