ShowMessageDialog from JTextArea

If I use JTextArea to show some error message like this:
JTextArea outputArea = new JTextArea( 11, 10 );
outputArea.setText( output );



JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, outputArea,
"Student Poll Program",
JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE );


The Mesage is editable,how can I make it read-only to user?

"Huiyuanm" <huiyuanm@uwyo.edu> wrote:
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>
>If I use JTextArea to show some error message like this:
>JTextArea outputArea = new JTextArea( 11, 10 );
>outputArea.setText( output );
>

Insert after this above line this line
"outputArea.setEnabled(false);"
that should do it