How do I align text within a JTextField?

Question

I have a JTextField with rather big bounds, the text however does not behave like I want it to.

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how would i do it so my text aligns like this

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Edit: Using JTextArea fixed my problem. Thank you.

Answer 1

JTextArea aligns to the top.

Or use a JLabel:

JLabel myLabel = new JLabel("my text");

and the call:

myLabel.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
myLabel.setVerticalAlignment(SwingConstants.TOP);

Layout managers is the another way of doing this: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/using.html