JLabel : Java Glossary

JLabel

is a component used to display decorative text on the screen to label some other component. The user cannot ever modify the text, unlike JTextfields. In AWT you use Label, in Swing JLabel. JLabel.setHorizonalAlignment( JLabel. LEFT ) or JLabel. setHorizontalAlignment( JLabel. RIGHT ) lets you control the justification. You control positioning of the text within the JLabel with setHorizonalAlignment and setVerticalAlignment and with setBorder. You control the positioning of the entire JLabel with your layout.

Gotchas

The background colour is ignored unless you do a setOpaque( true ).
Unlike a JTextField, you don’t need setContentType( "text/html" ) to embed HTML in the text.

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on JLabel class : available:

on the web at java.sun.com
in the current JDK 1.6.0_17 or in the old JDK 1.5.0_22 on your local Windows J: drive.

Sun’s tutorial on Jlabel

AWT
JTextField
Label
layout
margin
setOpaque
Swing

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