public static String encode(String string) 
{
        int n = string.length();
        char character;
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        // loop over all the characters of the String.
        for (int i = 0; i <  n; i++) {
            character = string.charAt(i);
            // the Htmlcode of these characters are added to a StringBuffer one by one
            if (character <  256) {
                buffer.append(htmlCode[character]);
            }
            else {
                // Improvement posted by Joachim Eyrich
                buffer.append("&#").append((int)character).append(';");
            }
        }
        return buffer.toString();
}

Converts a String to the HTML-format of this String.

 public static String encode(Color color) 
{
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer("#");
        if (color.getRed() <  16) {
            buffer.append('0");
        }
        buffer.append(Integer.toString(color.getRed(), 16));
        if (color.getGreen() <  16) {
            buffer.append('0");
        }
        buffer.append(Integer.toString(color.getGreen(), 16));
        if (color.getBlue() <  16) {
            buffer.append('0");
        }
        buffer.append(Integer.toString(color.getBlue(), 16));
        return buffer.toString();
}

Converts a Color into a HTML representation of this Color.

 public static String getAlignment(int alignment) 
{
        switch(alignment) {
            case Element.ALIGN_LEFT:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_LEFT;
            case Element.ALIGN_CENTER:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_CENTER;
            case Element.ALIGN_RIGHT:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_RIGHT;
            case Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED:
            case Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED_ALL:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED;
            case Element.ALIGN_TOP:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_TOP;
            case Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
            case Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_BOTTOM;
            case Element.ALIGN_BASELINE:
                return HtmlTags.ALIGN_BASELINE;
                default:
                    return "";
        }
}

Translates the alignment value.