Java - Align JTextArea to the Right

java swing alignment jtextarea
Ood picture Ood · Jun 19, 2014 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

I it possible to align the text inside a JTextArea to the right (or change the text alignment in general)?

|Left         |
|  Centered   |
|        Right|    <- Like this

I've been searching for hours and it seems others have asked this question before but there are no good answers (that actually work).

Thanks in advance!

Answer

Braj picture Braj · Jun 19, 2014

Try with JEditorPane or JTextPane instead of JTextArea.

Please have a look at my another post JEditorPane vertical aligment for complete sample code.

For more info have a look at this thread Vertical Alignment of Text in JEditorPane

Sample code:

JTextPane output = new JTextPane();

SimpleAttributeSet attribs = new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setAlignment(attribs, StyleConstants.ALIGN_RIGHT);
output.setParagraphAttributes(attribs, true);

EDIT

You can try

JTextArea jTextArea = new JTextArea();
jTextArea.setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.RIGHT_TO_LEFT);

Read more about How to set the orientation of JTextArea from right to left

Related questions

Java: vertical alignment within JPanel

I am trying to vertically align (center) both JLabels inside one JPanel. JPanel panel = new JPanel(); panel.setPreferredSize(size); JLabel label1 = new JLabel(icon); JLabel label2 = new JLabel("text"); panel.add(label1); panel.add(label2); I have tried using setAligmentY() …

Read More
Text align in JLabel

I've got GridLayout-JPanel. In every cell there is a JLabel with some String. How can I right-align this text in my cells?

Read More
How to align left or right inside GridBagLayout cell?

I see that GridBagLayout positions it's children with center alignment within cells. How to align left or right? UPDATE Constructing code (I know I could reuse c) // button panel JPanel button_panel = new JPanel(); button_panel.add(ok_button); button_…

Read More