Highlighting strings in JavaFX TextArea [duplicate]

Answer 1

Unfortunately rich text is not yet supported (fx 2.2).

You can try next workarounds:

1. Use RichTextEditor
2. Use WebView
3. Draw several Text on Canvas
4. Just put Text/Labels with different formatting in HBox or TilePane.
5. Create a transparent pane over the TextArea and draw an opaque highlights, but this can be hard due to complexity of finding out exact words coordinates.