how to insert or append new line on top of the jtextarea in java swing?

Question

how to insert or append new line on top of the jtextarea in java swing ? i want to to append jtextarea and add the new line on top of the jtextarea please help me how to do this.

Answer 1

You can do this:

textArea.setText("The new text\n" + textArea.getText());

Or, an even better solution would be this:

try {
  textArea.getDocument().insertString(0, "The new text\n", null);
} catch (BadLocationException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}