Newline in JLabel

java user-interface swing formatting jlabel

mportiz08 · Jul 7, 2009 · Viewed 153.3k times · Source

How can I display a newline in JLabel?

For example, if I wanted:

Hello World!
blahblahblah

This is what I have right now:

JLabel l = new JLabel("Hello World!\nblahblahblah", SwingConstants.CENTER);

This is what is displayed:

Hello World!blahblahblah

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, I'm just learning some Swing basics...

Answer

Surround the string with <html></html> and break the lines with <br/>.

JLabel l = new JLabel("<html>Hello World!<br/>blahblahblah</html>", SwingConstants.CENTER);