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title: Editor Components
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## EditorTextField
Compared to
[Swing JTextArea](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextArea.html), the
*IntelliJ Platform's* editor component has a ton of advantages: syntax highlighting support, code completion, code folding and much more.
*IntelliJ Platform* editors are normally displayed in editor tabs, but they can be embedded in dialogs or toolwindows, too.
This is enabled by the
[EditorTextField](upsource:///platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/ui/EditorTextField.java)
component.
When creating an
[EditorTextField](upsource:///platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/ui/EditorTextField.java),
you can specify the following attributes:
* The file type according to which the text in the text field is parsed;
* Whether the text field is read-only or editable;
* Whether the text field is single-line or multiline.
A common use case for
[EditorTextField](upsource:///platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/ui/EditorTextField.java)
is entering the name of a Java class or package.
This can be accomplished with the following steps:
* Use
[JavaCodeFragmentFactory.getInstance().createReferenceCodeFragment()](upsource:///java/java-psi-api/src/com/intellij/psi/JavaCodeFragmentFactory.java)
to create a code fragment representing the class or package name;
* Call
[PsiDocumentManager.getInstance().getDocument()](upsource:///platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/psi/PsiDocumentManager.java)
to get the document corresponding to the code fragment;
* Pass the returned document to the
[EditorTextField](upsource:///platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/ui/EditorTextField.java)
constructor or its `setDocument()` method.