Multiline text in JLabel
How can I make the text of a JLabel extend onto another line?
You can do it by putting HTML in the code, so:
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setLayout(new GridLayout());
JLabel label = new JLabel("<html>First line<br>Second line</html>");
frame.add(label);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
if you want your jLabel Text to resize automaticly for example in a stretchable gridbaglayout its enough just to put its text in html tags like so:
JLabel label = new JLabel("<html>First line and maybe second line</html>");
I have used JTextArea for multiline JLabels.
JTextArea textarea = new JTextArea ("1\n2\n3\n"+"4\n");
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JTextArea.html
Type the content (i.e., the "text" property field) inside a <html></html> tag. So you can use <br> or<P> to insert a newline.
For example:
String labelContent = "<html>Twinkle, twinkle, little star,<BR>How I wonder what you are.<BR>Up above the world so high,<BR>Like a diamond in the sky.</html>";
It will display as follows:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
You can also use a JXLabel from the SwingX library.
JXLabel multiline = new JXLabel("this is a \nMultiline Text");
multiline.setLineWrap(true);