Align text in JLabel to the right

Question

I have a JPanel with some JLabel added with the add() method of JPanel. I want to align the JLabel to the right like the image below but I don't know how to do that. Any Idea? Thanks!

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Would you like the text of the label align horizontally? – Roman C Sep 25 '12 at 19:14 — Roman C, Sep 25 '12 at 19:14

Sébastien Le Callonnec · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-25T19:31:12.770

This can be done in two ways.

JLabel Horizontal Alignment

You can use the JLabel constructor:

JLabel(String text, int horizontalAlignment)

To align to the right:

JLabel label = new JLabel("Telephone", SwingConstants.RIGHT);

JLabel also has setHorizontalAlignment:

label.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.RIGHT);

This assumes the component takes up the whole width in the container.

Using Layout

A different approach is to use the layout to actually align the component to the right, whilst ensuring they do not take the whole width. Here is an example with BoxLayout:

    Box box = Box.createVerticalBox();
    JLabel label1 = new JLabel("test1, the beginning");
    label1.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
    box.add(label1);

    JLabel label2 = new JLabel("test2, some more");
    label2.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
    box.add(label2);

    JLabel label3 = new JLabel("test3");
    label3.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
    box.add(label3);


    add(box);

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 19:13

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JLabel label = new JLabel("fax", SwingConstants.RIGHT);

answered Sep 25 '12 at 19:13

Bart Blommaerts

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 15 '20 at 12:48

To me, it seems as if your actual intention is to put different words on different lines. But let me answer your first question:

JLabel lab=new JLabel("text");
lab.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);

And if you have an image:

JLabel lab=new Jlabel("text");
lab.setIcon(new ImageIcon("path//img.png"));
lab.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.LEFT);

But, I believe you want to make the label such that there are only 2 words on 1 line.

In that case try this:

String urText="<html>You can<br>use basic HTML<br>in Swing<br> components," 
   +"Hope<br> I helped!";
JLabel lac=new JLabel(urText);
lac.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);

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