Centering Text in a JTextArea or JTextPane - Horizontal Text Alignment

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Awaken picture Awaken · Jul 9, 2010 · Viewed 97.1k times · Source

Is there a way to create horizontally centered text for a JTextArea like with a JTextField? 

setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.CENTER);

Is there a way I can accomplish the same thing with a multi-line text area? I can't find a method for it with JTextArea, so is there another option? JTextPane? If so, how?

Answer

camickr picture camickr · Jul 9, 2010

You need to use a JTextPane and use attributes. The following should center all the text:

StyledDocument doc = textPane.getStyledDocument();
SimpleAttributeSet center = new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setAlignment(center, StyleConstants.ALIGN_CENTER);
doc.setParagraphAttributes(0, doc.getLength(), center, false);

Edit:

Vertical centering is not supported as far as I know. Here is some code you might find useful: Vertical Alignment of JTextPane

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