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I have a JLabel which has a lot of text on it. Is there a way to make the JLabel have a max width so that it will wrap the text to make it not exceed this width?
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As per @darren's answer, you simply need to wrap the string with <html> and </html> tags: myLabel. setText("<html>"+ myString +"</html>"); You do not need to hard-code any break tags.
You can set a fixed the size by setting the minimum, preferred and maximum size: setMinimumSize(width, height); setPreferredSize(width, height); setMaximumSize(width, height);
To wrap the lines of JTextArea we need to call the setLineWrap(boolean wrap) method and pass a true boolean value as the parameter. The setWrapStyleWord(boolean word) method wrap the lines at word boundaries when we set it to true .
Surround the string with <html></html> and break the lines with <br/> . just a little correction: use <br /> instead of just <br> ... this is recommended way of doing it (to not miss any closing tags)...
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You can use HTML in the label, but then you must hard code the break tag.
A better approach is to use a JTextArea and turn wrapping on. You can change the background,foreground, font etc. of the text are to make it look like a label.
Note, this answer is outdated as of at least Java 7.
As per @darren's answer, you simply need to wrap the string with <html> and </html> tags:
myLabel.setText("<html>"+ myString +"</html>"); You do not need to hard-code any break tags. The text wraps as the component resizes.
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